Here's the line...I wish to be peaceful, and to trade my time and resources with other folks. Anyone who isn't (roughly) in the anarchist position wants to pay thugs with guns to come rough up me, my family or my friends for the crime of disagreeing about which plants to grow in my garden...or where to wear hats...or from not responding to extortion with proper submissiveness.
It's awful hard for a libertarian to not see the world in 2 categories:
pro-freedom...and apologists for thugs.
Kent McManigal has the same theme, but louder.
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I feel the same pain. And, as I get closer to "old fart" than "middle aged", there seems to be a much smaller reservoir of patience for the fools that don't realize what their desires entail for others who get picked to pay for them. Even less for those that *do* understand that nasty equation, and either don't care or actively revel in it. My new year's resolutions include ignoring the fools, showing active contempt for those that don't care, and taking names for future reference of those in the last group.
The formalist also can divide everyone into thugs and non-thugs - but we just disagree on who the thugs are. I've posted a response here.
Devin,
It's not an attempt to divide the world. It's a visceral reaction ... I see these bastards with guns pointing them at people who've done nothing morally wrong. How the hell am I supposed to react?
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