Libertarians and Randroids, part 3

Just realized I said "lacre of and" at one point. Could it be that I'm mildly dyslexic?

And I for one welcome our new Martian libertarian overlords. (Not.)

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[Pentazoid111]

So because a large portion of the population might have taken land by force for a myriad of millenia, does that mean that this kind of behavior should be acceptable today and in the future? By that logic, since slavery as institution has existed for most of human history, written and unwritten, we as a collective unit of individuals should not condemn slavery because our ancestors had participated in this institution.

[DavidJohnWellman]

@Pentazoid111 Of course conquest isn't acceptable today.

[ShadowPa1adin]

Wasn't a Libertarian colony on Mars the plot of an old Heinlein novel?

[DavidJohnWellman]

@ShadowPa1adin That was the Moon. "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress."

[TheLivingDinosaur]

Funny, I'm an authoritarian, statist totalitarianist too. I'm just having trouble reconciling my need to have dominion over everyone and everything with my compassion for my fellow man. Can you help me work through this?

[gulbirk]

I find it funny how libertarians say its unfair for us to ask them to leave, because they live here too, and how its unfair that we get the entire area, while at the same time they wouldnt have a problem with property right. What if we (everyone who likes the idea of government) in an anarcho capitalist society simply bought the entire area and asked them to leave, would that also be unfair?

[MaryJo1950]

@AroundSun He addressed the constitution in the previous segment. You're just another one of those "my interpretation of the const. is the only correct one". Even the founders disagreed on interpretations. Jefferson even wrote that it had to be flexible enough to accomidate changes in society many years in the future. Funny folks like you ignore the parts of it you hate like the supremacy clause, right of congress to levy taxes. Pretend all you want, this isn't the 18th century any more.

[bannyloren100]

UR FAT U DONT MATTER

[Activeassholeonpills]

"A true Red Planet."  LOLZ!!!!!!!!

[AroundSun]

Oh you are without a doubt a total 100% "what can government do for me" liberal democrat. The social contract? There is one, it is called the Constitution. Nothing about democracy or socialism found there.

[omegapoint777]

@stewie1974

How about statist liberal slime?

[stewie1974]

Hey, can we not colonise mars ourselves? I'd rather try a new world and leave the libertarians to screw up this one.

[stewie1974]

Do we just add libertarians to the long list of people you simply can't argue with?

Racists, Creationists, Libertarians, Conspiricy Theroists...

[xexixk]

@Pentazoid111 As he said succession is based on a belief that one has the legal right to withdraw - that was the argument made by the southern states in the US that they had a legal right. The founders of this country never claimed a legal right to break away from Britain, but they did claim a moral right to do so - the Declaration of Independence lays out those moral claims.