Statist misrepresents Laissez-faire
Here's another statist lie, paraphrased for brevity:
"Sorry, libertarians. You are wrong. We know laissez-faire doesn't work, because it means there are no rules. You have to have some government, just not centralized control, because that doesn't work, either."
Yes, I heard one make that argument recently. He's wrong.
All government is centralized control. Yes, there are differing amounts. But if there is no centralized control it's not government as people understand government. It would be something else. Centralized control-- any and all centralized control-- is cancer. There's no way to keep it from metastisizing.
Laissez-faire doesn't mean there are no rules. The rules are just not imposed by a coercive, thieving gang of molesters. Control, in this case, is provided by social interactions. By the market. By self-interest. "Bottom-up" (which works) rather than "top-down" (which doesn't).
To make the claim the statist made is terribly ignorant. He probably believes himself to be very enlightened.
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It sounds like he is trying to equate "some government" with voluntary affiliation, which are obviously not the same thing. Why do people think that without government that people would just all start killing and raping each other, like government is keeping the wolves at bay. Government are the wolves!
I think that field manual would be pretty short because you could sum them up in one word... Evil
....While the sheep continue to willfully follow the directions of the slaughterer, into the shed...
Absolutely! They can't go fast enough towards their own demise.
I like the quote by Mark Twain:
If only the masses would follow his advice as much as they follow their obsession with materialism, we might live in a much better world.
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I wouldn't know about that, I've never been in that position! lol