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It seems rather more likely that in many of those cases, they will wonder why it was ever acceptable for governments not to do those things.

For millenia, human societies have drifted slowly but surely towards the left, with a constant increase in the quality of life for the entire population.

Your personal brand of Libertarianism - which advocates, at its heart, a return to feudalism - is uniquely peculiar to a current aspect of the US social situation. It has relatively little traction elsewhere, despite the relentless spread of corporatism in the last few decades, and will be seen as incomprehensibly barbaric within probably as few as 100 years.




> human societies have drifted slowly but surely towards the left, with a constant increase in the quality of life for the entire population.

This is like saying that caged mice have a better quality of life than wild mice because they have more free time, a reliable source of food, and no predators: it completely discounts the value of freedom.


>This is like saying that caged mice have a better quality of life than wild mice because they have more free time, a reliable source of food, and no predators: it completely discounts the value of freedom.

You have that backwards. It's the only way to get anything resembling freedom for more than the top 20% of the population.




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