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>You didn't build that.
...mod, come on.  Did you delete a bunch of posts again?  :|
There once was a libertarian so bold,
Who claimed the free market was gold,
But then found one day,
Without roads to pave the way,
His ideas left him out in the cold.
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>>1209
Did you ask an AI to make a limerick against libertarianism?

You know, this has got me thinking about what I'd call "form letter libertarianism." One of the problems _I_ see with libertarianism is--and I know this sounds incredibly conceited, but let me finish--the fact that it has an answer for everything.
>Minimum wage
<"Why $20/hr, why not $100/hr?"
>Ethics
<"If you did not agree with self-ownership, you would not be able to make that argument, so you are contradicting yourself."
>Who will build the roads?
<PRAs
>But what about the warlords?
<Private ancap security forces
It's gotten to the point where it's a fucking form letter. I swear you could make a simple Javascript site where you click a dropdown list of all the common arguments against libertarianism, and it populates a textbox below with the response to copy paste.
I've been in debates w/libertarians that feel like they're using a program like that. Where the libertarians are just block-quoting Rothbard or simply dropping a link to a mises.org/fee article and walking away. On the one hand, I understand it. It's this sensation of, "How many times do I have to repeat this to you guys?" or "Do you honestly think that we haven't heard this before?" that you end up just phoning it in and depressingly turning into form-letter libertarians. There's also a point where you just feel like, "God, why can't I hear someone bashing libertarianism make a NEW argument?!"
I don't have a solution for this. I do it just as much if not more than everyone else. I'm showing that here by not even responding to this guy because I'm just so goddam tired of yet another "Who will build the roads?" question. I just wanted to vent.
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