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🗓️ 4 October 2017
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It's fashionable again for libertarians to urge the abandonment of the nonaggression principle, the bedrock of our entire philosophy. It's dumb, you see. But what they propose in its place is dumb x 1000.
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0:56.0 | Man, was that a great, great event? |
0:58.4 | Well, today I just want to talk for a little while about a couple of items that showed up in my Facebook feed. |
1:05.0 | And they, I think, are just opportunities to think a little bit more clearly and deeply about some important and fundamental |
1:13.0 | questions about libertarianism. So I'm just going to get right to them. I'm not going to mention |
1:17.6 | names because the names are not important. In this one slim regard, I will say that I'm going to |
1:25.6 | be like Ron Paul and not focus on personalities, focus |
1:28.8 | exclusively on ideas. So let me read the first of these posts to you. This is about the |
1:34.7 | Libertarian Party. And by the way, I'm not fundamentally talking about the Libertarian Party |
1:39.1 | here, even though that's the backdrop of what the person is saying. I'm really just talking |
1:43.9 | about libertarianism in general. Anyway, the person says the LP, meaning the libertarian party, can't be a cult |
1:49.5 | and a political party. The NAP, meaning the non-aggression principle, will be discarded, or the party |
1:56.0 | will fail. It's that simple. All right, let's unpack that a bit. The LP can't be a cult and a political party. |
2:03.0 | So if you believe in the non-aggression principle, you are cultish. |
2:07.9 | Now, presumably, believing in principles alone does not make a person cultish. |
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