On baby selling

@Zahlanzi said
no libertarian willing to support baby selling? aww.

at least you do have some boundaries, at least our own red hot pawn libertarians

I admit I did not read the article. But there is a distinction between supporting something and outlawing something.

E.g..drug laws. Libertarians dont support the laws that criminalize drugs, but they also are not supporting drug use.

So maybe it's just that libertarians want to decriminalize baby selling?

@KellyJay said
If you are okay with selling baby parts when plan parenthood does that why would you argue selling live ones?

Hmmmmm, from Republican fairy tales straight to lying. Good job.

@spruce112358 said
OMG. You found an article by Walter Block. You may want to disinfect your computer. Walter Block is an Austrian school economist, a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and a real nut-job.

Here are some more beauties of his:

"Block believes that people should have the legal right to sell themselves into slavery, or to buy and keep slaves who have sold t ...[text shortened]... t stretches from David Friedman, through Murray Rothbard and von Mises all the way back to Ayn Rand.

At least he doesn't write about "the gooberment".

@spruce112358 said
Hehe... I know the libertarian guy who refuses to get a driver's license on principle.

He farms out in Western North Carolina.

The Blue Ridge Mountains. You could avoid the government for years out there. Most places in Appalachia, I wouldn't go in there alone.

@spruce112358 said
Naive, yes. But some people only learn by doing.

So in the spirit of fair-play, I would give them 10,000 sq miles around El Paso, Texas to try it. See if they can create a society using only the first obligation and not the second.

I think it ends more or less like Haiti and Somalia, but they always pooh-pooh that prediction.

But please, for the love of God, keep it in Texas. New Mexico doesn't deserve that.

@Zahlanzi said
"let's do a libertarian utopia someplace where the roads and schools and hospitals have already been built, we will figure out how to build roads and schools when the current ones break"

They've already tried (and failed), both in Katrina-ravaged south Louisiana and Iraq after the fall of Hussein.

Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney were behind that.

And now, most recently, in Grafton, New Hampshire. They failed there, too.

@Suzianne said
They've already tried (and failed), both in Katrina-ravaged south Louisiana and Iraq after the fall of Hussein.

Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney were behind that.

And now, most recently, in Grafton, New Hampshire. They failed there, too.

The Grafton NH story is incredibly amusing.

@wildgrass said
I admit I did not read the article. But there is a distinction between supporting something and outlawing something.

E.g..drug laws. Libertarians dont support the laws that criminalize drugs, but they also are not supporting drug use.

So maybe it's just that libertarians want to decriminalize baby selling?

"So maybe it's just that libertarians want to decriminalize baby selling?"
is that supposed to make it ok or even better? that maybe it's not something they would engage in, they just want it to be legal and let market forces regulate baby selling?

we're not talking about marijuana here. we're talking about selling babies and how some want it to be legal.


I want murder to be decriminalized. I don't support murder, i promise. I wouldn't murder anyone myself. It's just that there are too many restrictions on murder and this is stiffling... some industry or whatever. Lets make it legal. How does that sound?

@spruce112358 said
Lmao. Yeah. Libertarian house cats are CONVINCED they are fully wild tigers... until it's supper time.

but but, the principle of non-aggression. Everyone will adhere to it because magic!


There doesn't need to be a government enforcing non-aggression and punishing transgressors because we pinky swear with our brothers in libertarianism that we practice non-aggression.

@Zahlanzi said
but but, the principle of non-aggression. Everyone will adhere to it because magic!


There doesn't need to be a government enforcing non-aggression and punishing transgressors because we pinky swear with our brothers in libertarianism that we practice non-aggression.

Libertarians believe there is a role for goobermint, that is to protect you from me, and me from you.

Police, justice, defence.

...and, nearly forgot, zahlooney bamboozle for brains

@spruce112358 said
OMG. You found an article by Walter Block. You may want to disinfect your computer. Walter Block is an Austrian school economist, a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and a real nut-job.

Here are some more beauties of his:

"Block believes that people should have the legal right to sell themselves into slavery, or to buy and keep slaves who have sold t ...[text shortened]... t stretches from David Friedman, through Murray Rothbard and von Mises all the way back to Ayn Rand.

OMG

"Block believes..."

"Block asserts..."

"Block has written..."

OMG, why don't you quote the guy rather than some interpretation? Who are you quoting here BTW, or does the guy write in the third person.