Re:Digging for answers: The “strong smell” of fraud from one...
by Crito on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @11:58AM
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Yes, the libertarian position where the government continues to provide certain things, such as contract enforcement, seems reasonable to me.
Anarchism makes sense to me as well, so long as that particular flavor of anarchism recommends that certain useful roles of the government be replaced by novel constructs, not merely eliminated. An anarchist who advocates for the elimination of contract enforcement is being shortsighted, those functions are useful to creditors and, if dismantled, will be recreated.
Slandering libertarians by asserting that they are the later form of anarchist seems to be a popular internet passtime.
It concerns me that the Federal government is all our eggs in one basket, and people don't realize that doing dumb shit like blowing billions of dollars on programs that shouldn't even exist jeopardizes the whole basket... if our overbloated, overextended government collapses (and there is NO NATURAL LAW against this), it won't just take out the bloated overextended bits, the whole shebang goes down.
Sometimes people try to fling the "Oh, so, what about Police huh, you crazy libertarian?" at me, but at times I feel like I'm one of the only people actually taking the idea that government has certain core responsibilities seriously. Yes, we need police! Stop endangering them by stuffing every crazy-ass idea you come up with and decide call a "right" suddenly into the Federal government, without any apparent limit until it topples over!
We need to approach government more like engineering and less like a laundry list to the DC Fairy of everything we want in the world. One of the cores of any robust system is simplicity.