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To: Zon
On one hand, Roscoe's nutty tangents are sloppy, thoughtless, dishonest, and not very interesting

But, on the other hand, each tangent is rich with statist irony and its hard to resist laughing and pointing it out to passers by.

For example, take this latest nonsense mcnugget--apparantly something like: "libertarians will enforce perpetual slavery contracts between adults who consent on day 1 but change their minds on day 2." The irony here is that this immediately brings to mind one of Lysander Spooner's humorous descriptions of the statist theory of the "social contract."

I think it was somewhere in Spooner's classic Letter to Grover Cleveland where he describes "the contract" to which statists theorize we all agreed as a "contract" in which each individual says to the government something like, "OK, now in exchange for your perpetual protection I give you all of my rights and property and I want you to bind and gag me and keep me tied up forever--should I ever decide to forego your protection and re-cover my rights and property and protect myself on my own.

Nearly every nutty mcnugget of Roscoe's is like this--whether it be his using the sodomy laws to justify his program of throwing harmless opiate users into prisons where they have a 22% chance of being sodomized by force, or whether he's saying that conservative "morality" rests on the principle that allows the majority (even if they are liberal) to tax the minority (even if they are conservative) to pay for condom and homo-sexuality education.

1,211 posted on 01/22/2002 7:38:44 AM PST by Libertarian Billy Graham
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To: Libertarian Billy Graham
...each individual says to the government something like, "OK, now in exchange for your perpetual protection I give you all of my rights and property and I want you to bind and gag me and keep me tied up forever-...

Loudly contending they are slaves, Libertarians voluntarily remain on the plantation. Wouldn't want to miss dinner.

1,214 posted on 01/22/2002 8:26:31 AM PST by Roscoe
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To: Libertarian Billy Graham
Above anything he is consistent -- consistently dishonest.
1,218 posted on 01/22/2002 9:45:35 AM PST by Zon
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