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 Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
I can't fathom a society where no one finds that destruction generates personal wealth. I mean, it would require everyone to look at the world through the lens of free trade and understand fully the method behind theirs and others lives. People won't ever be on the same page. Someone is going to appreciate how they can improve their lot by taking forcefully from another.
If Ann Rand builds a neutron bomb, can she charge rents for everyone in the calculated blast radius to not detonate? If not, who is going to stop her?
Even the most hardcore libertarians believe in property rights, which implies a bunch of necessary and proper type clauses to maintain those rights. In Libertopia, nobody could make money by threatening property like this.
One of the main problems with libertarianism is that most of its advocates aren't that libertarian and are just looking for a soapbox for their pet issues. Once you get into the gritty of what libertarian ideology necessitates, you find a pretty big government protecting all sorts of property rights. Nobody wants to admit that though, so it's easy to point out silliness in arguments libertarians make
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