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XPost: alt.autos.toyota, rec.autos.driving, alt.society.liberalism
XPost: alt.fan.michael-moore
From: tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com
On 2011-02-17, His Highness the TibetanMonkey, originator of the Stop the
Bullshit Campaign wrote:
> On Feb 17, 9:44 am, Brent wrote:
>> On 2011-02-17, Ashton Crusher wrote:
>>
>> > The free market can't produce FREE roads but they could make
>> > standardized ones. The biggest problem I see with free market roads
>> > is if they are truly free market then you have lost your freedom to
>> > travel "freely" in the non-economic sense. Ultimately you would not
>> > be able to leave your house without paying for the privilege. The
>> > libertarians call that the perfect world.
>>
>> As opposed to government roads that are created with magic and instead
>> of resources taken from the population? Or is it that you want to
>> arrange things by the political process so that those people over there
>> pay for the roads while you get to use them for free?
>>
>> As to freedom to travel, how exactly do we have that by the political
>> process? The govenment has its armed muscle collect tribute on the
>> roads. The government has them set up checkpoints. Government enjoys
>> making people submit to it in order to travel. Travel was reduced from
>> a right to a government granted privilege. What's better? Being a
>> paying customer or subjected to stops and possibly searches by armed
>> men who's performance reviews depend on how much money they bring in
>> and/or how many arrests they make?
>>
>> .
>
> So again, WOULD YOU DISMISS ALL AIRPORT SECURITY SO YOU RIGHT TO
> PRIVACY IS PROTECTED?
>
> See how your bubble pops?
Build a strawman, knock it down. The false 'again' is a nice touch
though.
If you think airport security theater keeps you safe you're delusional.
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