[cake_crumb]

"You will submit to the will of the collective... /rant"

LOL...yep. (**best Borg voice**) Resistance is futile...you will be assimilated.

No one FORCES anyone to play the lotto. Stupid article...it ISN'T the state's job to protect people from themselves. That's not a "libertarian argument": it's common sense conservatism, one of the cor principles of which is responsibility for one's own actions.

[RKV]

You are right, the author of this tripe is not making a libertarian argument at all. Funny that they would say they were when they were arguing against individual liberty and responsibility. I guess I could make sense of an argument against the state sponsoring vice, but then it does now (e.g. welfare for the poor = theft from the productive).