[ExI] libertarian city - from Quora

Wed Aug 11 22:56:22 UTC 2021

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of SR Ballard via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] libertarian city - from Quora

Sorry spike, you’re not IRL til I meet you IRL. On the internet no one knows you’re a cat. 

SR Ballard

Oh, ja, there is that.  But it is a good thing.  Perhaps you saw the Bugs Bunny episode Hot Cross Bunny where that mad scientist switches the brains of Bugs and a chicken.  That was made in 1948, back in the days when society still had a collective sense of humor.  It made fun of Nazis in a vaguely subtle way, while simultaneously providing the clever turnabout for which Bugs is well-known and giving us the classic phrase “I don’t wanna be no chicken!”

If you saw Hot Cross Bunny (apologies to the younger generation among us (which is nearly everyone here except Billw and me (for missing all the politically incorrect fun))) you know where I got the inspiration to build my own Hot Cross Bunny machine.  A stray cat was the only easily available lifeform.  After the switch, the cat, in my flesh, bolted in terror and hasn’t been seen since.  So here am I, a cat.

However, this is not such a bad thing.  I am a really cool cat.

Libertarianism, like any political stance including moderates, works best in moderation.

spike

On Aug 11, 2021, at 5:38 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

…> On Behalf Of SR Ballard via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] libertarian city - from Quora

Taxation is theft tho? That’s what all the IRL libertarians tell me. They all reject the idea of the social contract. 

SR Ballard

I am an IRL libertarian.  I am not telling you that.  

spike

On Aug 11, 2021, at 4:12 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> > On Behalf Of SR Ballard via extropy-chat
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Subject: Re: [ExI] libertarian city - from Quora

> still have taxes

Uh, that doesn't sound very libertarian. 

SR Ballard

It is.  Without taxes there can be no infrastructure and no law enforcement.  Without law enforcement, there is no law.  This is anarchy, not libertarianism.

spike

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