mnottertail
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The ideal political-economic system is laissez-faire capitalism. It is a system where men deal with one another, not as victims and executioners, nor as masters and slaves, but as traders, by free, voluntary exchange to mutual benefit. It is a system where no man may obtain any values from others by resorting to physical force, and no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. The government acts only as a policeman that protects man’s rights; it uses physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use, such as criminals or foreign invaders. In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church. A little Objectivism here, and either John Galt was doing his industrial espionage to corner the cheese market, or the government will bear the brunt of cleaning this up, either of which puts the Ayn Randers in shitty diapers, innit?
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Have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two? Judges 5:30
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