Alert icon
We're changing our privacy policy. This stuff matters.  Learn more  Dismiss

Molyneux Badnarik Debate, Drexel University, July 5, 2009

Loading...

Sign in or sign up now!
5,137
Loading...
Alert icon
Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon

Uploaded by on Jul 23, 2009

Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio and Michael Badnarik, 2004 Libertarian Presidential Candidate debate the question 'How Much Government is Necessary?'

http://www.fdrurl.com/phillydebate

Thank you so much for your patience! The video will not be too much longer I hope.

  • likes, 4 dislikes

Link to this comment:

Share to:

Uploader Comments (stefbot)

  • intellectual masturbation is all that is.. no system/or lack of system is perfect, they can all be corrupted..

  • like your comment i suppose...

  • Excelente debate!

    You should have told Badnarik that some of us are not willing to hold guns and shoot the bad guys, as some of us are not willing to grow our potatoes or make our own computers.

    For that a security company will exist with professionals holding the guns and being paid to protect the ones that don't have the time or the proficiency to do that.

  • Great point, thank you!

Top Comments

  • Haha, well done. I like Badnarik but since I've went full anarchist, I'm fascinated at how much libertarian will clinch to government (albeit small). I mean, WTF does it uniquely bring to small people anyways other than a few yearly tax return cheques and a career opportunity as politician ?

see all

All Comments (29)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • Just listened to the whole thing...At what point did Bednarik piss himself?

  • The libertarian guy deflected a lot later on.

  • Hmmm so do you think an aggressive violent monopoly run by humans... would fix it?

  • that's good, but I would still mention the rulers as people...

  • Stef, this is how I define the state.

    an aggressive violent monopoly or near monopoly of certain services over land not tied to labor or over individuals who have not consented which, by the general public conception, does so in a manner not considered to be legitimate for other groups or individuals to engage in.

  • similar, but not the same..

  • wow! This molyneux guy literally gave me chills.

  • Badnarik really revealed himself as a kind of intellectual lightweight (and I think he began to realize this, too, as the event progressed). He just seemed incapable of putting 2 and 2 together, speaking of government's failures out of one side of his mouth but still murkily calling for its continued existence out of the other. Stefan was simply consistent, whereas Badnarik was self-contradictory at every turn.

Loading...

0 / 00Unsaved Playlist Return to active list
    1. Your queue is empty. Add videos to your queue using this button:
      or sign in to load a different list.
    Loading...Loading...Saving...
    • Clear all videos from this list
    • Learn more