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Reason TV: Feds Sentence Aaron Sandusky to 10 Years for Medical Marijuana
January 8, 2013 — xanthippaReason TV: Free Domain Radio’s Stefan Molyneux on the Inevitable Growth of the State
October 6, 2012 — xanthippaI have to admit that I am intrigued by some of the ideas proposed by the anarcho-capitalists.
And, I do understand how it would work – for civilized people who would agree on impartial third party conflict resolution and all that. I get it…
What I don’t understand is how it would function if the two parties in conflict did not agree on their conflict moderator – or if one of the parties never agreed to the process at all…how could conflicts be resolved then?
Reason TV’s Nanny of the Month: Obama vs Romney
October 1, 2012 — xanthippa…and while on the topic of the US elections…
Buckyballs vs The Consumer Products Safety Commission
September 13, 2012 — xanthippaI may be a little more pro-free-market than 99.9% of the pro-free-market people ‘out there’. I do not recognize the authority of governments to forbid the free exchange of goods and services – regardless of the goods and services being exchanged. If both parties agree without coersion, then the government has no right interfering.
On a good day, perhaps, I could be talked into agreeing that, perhaps, a government has a role in consumer protection – but only in as much as they make it possible to prosecute false advertizing/insufficient warning.
Perhaps…
However, you don’t need to be as pro-freedom as I in order to find the ‘Bucky Balls’ situation appalling:
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