Some blunt thoughts from Christopher Cantwell’s post, “Top 10 Reasons Libertarians Aren’t Nice To You” (emphasis his):
6. All those “what ifs” you’re so concerned about, they’re called choices.
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You have become so used to the State being the arbiter of all things, that you seem to panic at every uncertainty. The funny part about this is, the State hasn’t provided you with any certainty at all. There’s absolute chaos in the world, governments have murdered over 260 million of their own citizens in the last century, not including war, and you’re still freaking out about speed limits.
Indeed. The concept of the state has consistently been an abysmal failure as a method of organizing people. How people believe another version of this failure, or getting the right people to administer it, or passing one more useless law, will work this time, this place after hundreds and hundreds of failures, is a baffling phenomenon.
Worrying that people will drive too fast if there’s no government is like having a panic attack about the zit on your nose while your leprotic extremities are being gnawed down to the bone by rats.