(urth) The Devil in a Forest

[Jeffrey Brent McBeth]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 02:22:14PM -0400, brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> Socialism is criminal.
> 
> Socialism is the idea that theft is OK if it's done by the government.

It is only theft if it isn't consentual.  The mistake that Socialists
make is when they remove the consent.  

The parallel problem with libertarianism is that a free market is an
unstable state.  (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstable for a
reasonable 50,000ft view of instability).

I don't have a solution to either problem beyond Bill and Ted's.

Jeff

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