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All right. So the question is, how do you deal with murderers in a free society?

How do you deal with murderers in a free society? So I'm going to unpack this at a number

of different levels and we're going to go deep like a knife wound. We're going to go deep because

there is an implicit premise involved in how does a free society deal with X, whatever X is?

How does a free society deal with the education of children, the provision of health care,

the protection of property, the defense of a nation?

How does a free society deal with these issues?

Now, implicit in this is the belief that a status society deals with these things.

And a free society, a stateless society, has to do it better.

So if you say, well, how does a free society protect your property?

It's like, well, how's your property being protected at the moment?

Well, it's not.

In fact, it's being kind of pillaged, right?

Because they can raise property taxes, drive up home values, which default increases property

taxes. There's asset forfeiture, there's taxation, there's unfunded liabilities, there's national

debts, there's taxes on everything that you do, and you cannot functionally use the court system

to protect your property. There's squatters rights, there's, uh, if you've ever tried to get

the government to help you protect your property, you realize that it doesn't, really. I mean,

I remember decades ago, a guy I worked with was telling me about his brother who had a very

expensive car stolen that had GPS in it and he went to the cops and he said, listen, I need you to go and get my car

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