I have some ideas for short-story horror plots that involve pushing libertarinaism to its logical extreme. In many ways i believe the short stories may serve as a diservice to liberty if a wide audience learned that to accept such philosophy is to accept such ends.
Is there a market for this already?
sure, people eat up hearing about how libertarians are crazy and evil and how socialists of all stripes are good and decent.
but i’m suprised that you want to enter the propoganda wars on the wrong side
I don’t wish to enter on the wrong side, just to point to certain ends. Though some would see horror in such plots, I see beauty. I see individuals engaging in actions they perceive as mutually beneficial—even if somewhat grotesque
It may serve as a warning for a libertarian society, but, more then likely, your probably right that it will hamper liberty. People may reject liberty in order to outlaw certain acts of liberty.
Have you thought these scenarios through? It would be embarrassing to release these stories, only to find out later that you overlooked something and were unintentionally misleading people.
You see horror in non-violence, private property and voluntary exchange?
The state does. Oh, score!!! 1-0, me. You want to move this on to CoD MW2? I’m Colonel III now.
I’m a First Lt. I’m scanning my computer for malware plus the games are on today so I have to get in my comfortable pants, heat up the nacho dip and be a couch potato for the rest of the day. I’ll send you my steam name though for the next time that we are both on.
PS3, right?
Are you kidding me? The only reason I would buy a PS3 is for uncharted territory, killlzone and maybe infamous. I PC it up.
Your subjective valuation baffles me.
Touche sir, touche.
When you adjust your utility prefrences, and swap PS3 for 360, you will witness the power of this “fully armed and fully opperational” CoD MW2 phenomenon
For the rest of you, x-box 360 call tag: “themrdyke”
What about voluntary cannibalism contracts? Or maybe people go to an island, or somewhere else that’s isolated, and sign a waiver that says they recognize that they may be attacked. Something like ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ but with contracts and bloodthirsty genetically altered humanoid freaks. You could have one character arguing against the validity of contracts (maybe the participants really need money, the one character could argue that the contracts take advantage of them). Then you could have another character arguing the importance of maintaining contracts and emphasizing that the contestants have entered into the situation with full prior knowledge and of their own free will.
Paying for online play on the 360 is very low on my value scale.
The horror being… long discussions?
Maybe we put Rothbard’s words into the mouth of the head cannibal genetic altered mutant freak.
I love how to even make a voluntary society look bad one must conjure up the most preposterously convoluted situations imaginable, and even then most people wouldn’t care, because it would be consensual. Can such scenarios occur? Possibly. Will they be common? It would be foolish to think so. Plus:
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” - Jefferson