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1 " SCREW CHILDREN! That's the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don't comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with religion and statism and patriotism and military worship, what if we just did what was right for them? The whole world is built on " screw children" , and if we changed that, this would be an alien planet to us. "
2 " The libertarian philosophy doesn't explain the best way to grow a vegetable garden!" Why do some people talk as if there should be one concept or principle which is all you'll ever need to know in order to handle everything in life? Right now the PRIMARY threat to humanity--by a factor of a zillion--is the belief in " authority." And the solution--the ONLY solution--is for people to escape that superstition. Questions like, " But how do we care for the poor?" are 100% logically IRRELEVANT to proving that statism is immoral and destructive. " But gee, if I stop sawing off my toes with this steak knife, how will I balance my checkbook?" Why the hell do people imagine that anarchists have some obligation to explain how every aspect of everyone's life will work, just because they say, " Having a ruling class is immoral and irrational" ? When someone tells you to stop advocating evil crap (e.g., statism), they don't suddenly acquire an obligation to explain the whole universe to you, or to guarantee that nothing bad will ever happen to anyone ever again. "
3 " Some capitalism suffers from cronyism. All of socialism is perverted by the crony statism of the powerful few. "
― A.E. Samaan
4 " To eliminate statism is not to physically subdue the rulers, but to mentally liberate the ruled. "
