[ExI] rugged individualists

[Dan]

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.
 
Regards,
 
Dan
From: Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com>
To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [ExI] rugged individualists

I and my family have received government aid. I knew it was government
aid. Every year since 1999 when I paid $502,000 in federal income tax,
I have been trying my best to get it all back. But I don't like what
it has done to me. It has made me much less of a rugged individualist
than I ever wanted to be. It is a disease, and I want to fight back
and kick the public heroin. I just haven't quite figured out how to do
it yet.

It is out of this experience and the experiences of "we're the
government and we're here to help" that I have become a libertarian.
Not because I am a rugged individualist. Perhaps that makes me a big
fat hypocrite. Most likely, it does. But I'm just trying to live the
best life I can under what I perceive to be a crappy system.

-Kelly
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