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Another theory is that while we profess libertarian views, we’re actually threatened by the growing likelihood that a future Paul Administration (yes, really) would usher in libertopia and deprive us of our cushy sinecures.
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Julian: In a pure libertopia, the Market will be so efficient as to dispense with the need for human intermediaries, like a Lovecraftian Elder God who casts aside the husk of an avatar to bestow the touch of madness with its own deathless tentacles.
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For it to exist in a libertopia, it must be either torn up for scrap or held by a benevolent overlord who uses it only to displace would-be tyrants.
Battlestar Libertopia, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In libertopia, however, you merely have to convince one person to allow you to share the domicile.
Another Herring, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Perhaps this is the best angle to transition to libertopia: focus on those products that are lacking, and privatize them.
Battlestar Libertopia, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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One can observe how easy it was for the US to kick the place down, staying and policing with lots of constraints is much harder - but presumably a kick down strategy would be more in line with an enemy of libertopia.
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Your second point would give incentive to attack libertopia, and as conquest need not be a goal - only partial destruction, one could easily get a "Iraq war II situation", where a country claims preemptive self defense and kicks down the place.
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It seems clear to me though that there's at least a good chance that no external force would successfully engage in conquest of libertopia, and in fact the success of libertopia would be likely to foment revolution in those states and encourage people to reject their geographic defense monopolists and demand private law and defense of their own.
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There are some good reasons to think it is not as big an issue as some suggest, but it is also not crazy to think of it as a total dealbreaker for libertopia.
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Magic incantations can overturn society and bring about libertopia.
Endorsing Ron Paul, and Why Progressive Dems Should Support Ron Paul 2007
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