[ExI] libertarian city - from Quora

[William Flynn Wallace]

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



spike

*Well said - nobody at any time of life is totally free of everything
(including one's body, which has a mind of its own - and, of course, your
mind has a mind of its own too).   If we all followed our id it would be
far worse than anarchy.  Down deep inside is a terrible, totally selfish
killing machine, ready to take anything it wants when it wants it, which is
when it becomes aware of the impulse.  **This is the basis of horror movies
and a lot more.  **In most people the impulses leak out a little at a time,
like letting your finger go just a tad to release air from a balloon.
(Your finger is your superego and ego.)*


*In some psychotics, what they are mostly afraid of is their id just
letting go and running wild.  They think this because they have lost some
control over what is in their mind, like hallucinations, and they fear a
lot more coming out.  bill w *

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 6:02 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> Sorry spike, you’re not IRL til I meet you IRL. On the internet no one
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> 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
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> 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.
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> However, this is not such a bad thing.  I am a really cool cat.
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> Libertarianism, like any political stance including moderates, works best
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> Taxation is theft tho? That’s what all the IRL libertarians tell me. They
> all reject the idea of the social contract.
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> Uh, that doesn't sound very libertarian.
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> 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.
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