<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Some libertarian anarchists have made the case that anyone who can should take whatever they can get from the government -- on the view that this both takes resources away from the government AND it's also stolen goods, so stealing from a thief is not morally wrong. I believe Walter Block takes this position.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Dan</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, July 14, 2011 4:26 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [ExI] rugged individualists<BR></FONT><BR>I and my family have received government aid. I knew it was government<BR>aid. Every year since 1999 when I paid $502,000 in federal income tax,<BR>I have been trying my best to get it all back. But I don't like what<BR>it has done to me. It has made
me much less of a rugged individualist<BR>than I ever wanted to be. It is a disease, and I want to fight back<BR>and kick the public heroin. I just haven't quite figured out how to do<BR>it yet.<BR><BR>It is out of this experience and the experiences of "we're the<BR>government and we're here to help" that I have become a libertarian.<BR>Not because I am a rugged individualist. Perhaps that makes me a big<BR>fat hypocrite. Most likely, it does. But I'm just trying to live the<BR>best life I can under what I perceive to be a crappy system.<BR><BR>-Kelly<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>