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J. Bezos's avatar

Just tell people: "I firmly believe that net taxpayers want open borders and we should best approximate that." Any objection also applies to the opposite.

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Great writing and detail -- as someone who's still got plenty of libertarian literature to learn, I found what you had to say very informative. I definitely agree that libertarians should never be tempted into the trap of utilitarian thinking even if it may seem the most palpable and familiar.

And I liked your analogies highlighting the danger of punishing someone for what they might do. I employ a similar argument against the covidian fanatics who support covid vaccine passports and justify it because it forcefully segregates x person (the unvaccinated) due to their propensity or possibility of spreading x germ (covid). It's an egregious fallacy that as I have often brought up, would justify the incarceration of black youth because of their statistical likelihood to commit crime.

What happens to the public property if the State were to just vanish is definitely a complex and difficult question to answer. There really is no "right" answer, albeit maybe the most theoretically consistent. I am similarly inclined to favor, naturally, those whom occupy or use it presently. For example, a government housing unit would go to the tenants actually living there. Albeit I see issues that could arise -- and it could get rather messy when it comes to schools and libraries where there is a lot of people involved in its upkeep and use.

For example, in a school there are teachers, students, parents, janitors, the bookkeepers and other executive positions that are involved in its maintenance, etc. . Implying the school or library became a sort of homesteading 'unclaimed' space, I suppose for any sort of profitable future the inhabitants of the school for example may collectively decide to auction it off or some other means as to further privatize it into a more efficient business.

The immigration-border issue is one I admit I am still pondering but it was insightful to see your excerpts and rationales. I am definitely in favor of whatever solution being as decentralized as possible and to throw any and all centralization out of the window. I look forward to reading more of your work and I hope my two cents has proved useful in some kind.

And with all that said, it's good to see more fellow liberty-minded writers carving out the liberty space on the Substack platform. I'm similarly doing some libertarian writing of my own, feel free to check my Substack out and subscribe if you wish <3

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