This is just too good not to share:<\/p>\n
[…]<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t believe that I still have friends who still accept the state as either legitimate or necessary. Statism, or the religion of government, is the belief that a coercive government is necessary for social order and is a legitimate institution.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll put this challenge out there: if you are a statist, get your smartest statist friends, get your political science professor and your [insert non-austrian school of economics] professor together, in one place and i\u2019ll debate all of you, at once, and I will guarantee my own victory. How can I make such a statement? two things:<\/p>\n
There; I just beat you. Both philosophically and practically (they\u2019re both tied together, really), I just showed that the state can\u2019t work and is unjustifiable, even if it could.<\/p>\n
Look, those questions aren\u2019t even good questions. they\u2019re crap you thought of right off the top of your head in less than 5 seconds. do you really think that in the hundreds of thousands of pages of scholarship on the subject, we haven\u2019t considered that stuff? when I mentioned the calculation problem above, you didn\u2019t even know what I was talking about (admit it), but you thought of something we haven\u2019t thought of after thinking about it for zero seconds? get a clue.<\/p>\n
This post is for the hard cases: folks who just won\u2019t let go of the love of violence against peaceful people. I could go on and on about why government (in the common usage) can\u2019t work and is unjustifiable (and I do), far beyond the two simple points above, but really, they\u2019re all you need to know.<\/p>\n
So, from this point forward, you should know to ask questions and get educated about market anarchism. I\u2019m happy to help you understand things as best I can, or you could use the wealth of information available on the internet. If you have an objection, instead of letting me know you\u2019re a moron by spouting off some condescending yet ignorant bullshit to me, try that website called www.google.com to find the answer. I know it isn\u2019t something that will come overnight. People need time to overcome the decades of indoctrination they\u2019ve endured. It\u2019s ok to start from scratch. We all had to. If you\u2019re too lazy or don\u2019t care to learn (there\u2019s nothing wrong with that), then please, for the sake of the rest of us, assume i\u2019m right and forget all your statist ideas and opinions.<\/p>\n
I often say that there are three kinds of people: libertarians, the ignorant, and the evil. You are in one of those categories. There\u2019s nothing wrong with being in two of those categories, but if you\u2019re in that third one, maybe you should take a long look at yourself.<\/p>\n
The battle was over long ago. Statism lost. now it\u2019s time to start understanding why. I am at your service.<\/p>\n