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Marokai Backbeat
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« on: December 04, 2009, 06:06:41 PM »

The libertarian version?

The freedom to overwork employees, the freedom use children as part of your workforce, the freedom cut corners on production, the freedom to overlook health code violations, the freedom to engage in predatory pricing, the freedom to discriminate in hiring practices, the freedom to not pay your employees any additional benefits, and the freedom to bust and intimidate workers from organizing.
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Marokai Backbeat
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« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2009, 06:18:24 AM »

An intellectual fallacy used to justify economic anarchy.
And what's wrong with economic anarchy?

Anarchy is the right for anyone to do whatever he wants. People pursue nothing but their self-interest, thus ruining the collective interest. Liberty isn't guaranteed, and strongest people oppress weakest people.
It's mostly the animals' social organizations.
Individuals each acting for his or her own best interests together create the order necessary for the 'common good'.

This is an irrational thought supported by no fact. You're just a bigot, the Market is your God and Hayek your prophet.

It's important to remember, and this is something I've only recently realized, that people like Libertas are not interested in having a legitimate debate over policy matters or trading evidence for the same reason an evangelist will not spend his time having scientific discussions.

Libertas, and people like him, support their free market and anarchist policies not out of fact or figures, but out of a religious devotion to their cause. They cannot, and will not, be swayed.
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