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Why is libertarianism so infallible?

Name: Anonymous 2007-06-04 7:05 ID:qJENOkNb

It is due to it being the application of political science. It does not permit failed policies to be continued fruitlessly year after year with idealistic fervour, it is next to impossible for anyone surrounded by fierce libertarian critics to continue clinging on to lies. It is a purely functional machine, lubricated with justice and fueled by free speech.

Name: Anonymous 2007-06-07 18:57 ID:xDEp4L0H

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is abortion killing sentient life? define sentient. if fetuses are sentient so are fucking cows.

so everything should be free unless it affects gdp and crime? Everything affects GDP, so i guess nothing's free.

so... people will buy and sell "environment", and make it as profitable as possible? what do you even mean by environment? how will a company make a quarter of a mountain side profitable?  without mining it or something similar? and if you can't mine it or something similar you can't make it profitable.

the athmosphere will be considered international property? who owns it then, who's going to take money from the businesses and thwart the market when they pollute? where will all the money go? to a supernational organization? a supernational organization that owns the athmosphere?

Yeah, pollution 'causes damage to property, and what do you think is the most profitable for the individual organization? to protect themselves from the pollution or to chip in a tiny bit to removing all of the pollution? it's a typical prisoners dilemma situation. the only way you can solve it is by instituting is by setting up some sort of commitment device which has to be instituted by govenrmetns etc. this menas you ahve to have an incentive for companies to not pollute, and it HAS to be instituted on a global level, do you really think that's gonna happen?

And now we can govern over companies because something they do has negative externalities? and since we have to be rational about it we should do it for ALL externalities. how do we figure out exactly what externalities businesses produce? and how do we make sure that what they claim they produce is what they produce? that's right, more regulations.

Since we have do take into account all things which effect our GDP, this includes social matters. If a person has an alcoholic problem, that's his own fault, but negative personal traits such as alcoholism affects his ability to work AND his ability to raise and have kids which are effecient and contribute fully to our GDP, so he would have to be charged for his negative externalities.

Alright, so what do we have now, all companies and people are being watched and monitored by a supernational government in order to make sure noone contributes inefficiently to our GDP.

good job.



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