[ExI] Under the libertarian yoke

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:52 AM, The Avantguardian
<avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > ### I can assure you that destroying our economy, including
>  > agriculture, would spill many millions of gallons of blood, as the
>  > population is reduced by about 70 - 80% in the ensuing food riots and
>  > mass famine.
>  >
>  > Do you really hate "companies" so much that you can think about
>  > something like that as a neat solution?
>
>  It's not about companies or hate, Rafal, in your own words, it is about
>  "avoiding a miserable death on a parched planet". It's about cold rationality,
>  inevitability, making difficult choices, and holding the current generation
>  accountable for its own mistakes instead of dooming our children to untold
>  suffering for the sake of our own short term luxury.

### Nah, I posed the "libertarian yoke" challenge to stimulate
thoughts on non-violent methods of solving social problems. Stathis
did great - he reproduced a huge chunk of libertarian economical
theory and formulated a non-violent solution.

I am sorry to say, but your proposal fails the challenge by
definition, with extra demerits for rhetoric about "cold rationality"
and saving our children.

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>
>  So what happened to your "heartless libertarianism"? Sorry if you can't stomach
>  your own philosophy of "live and let die" extended to it's ultimate conclusion.
>  Disallowing for superrationality or socialism, I don't see a lot else left. In
>  your scenario, a purely hypothetical solution would be the overthrow of the
>  aliens and the commandeering of their superior technology to save the planet
>  but that's not much use in brainstorming the real world problem.

### Read Stathis' posts.

Rafal