The Probability Broach: Shame, shame
"It's a recent and modern innovation in ethics to hold that you can't punish people for their opinions, no matter how offensive."
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The Probability Broach: Backyard WMDs
Building weapons of mass destruction with no oversight. What could possibly go wrong?
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The Probability Broach: Non-state violence
Is it only governments that wage war and commit violence? You wish.
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The Probability Broach: Blue sky
We owe many of our most valuable breakthroughs to pure curiosity-driven research that wasn’t undertaken to serve a commercial purpose.
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The Probability Broach: The myth of the lone genius
The persistent libertarian delusion that one smart guy can do everything by himself.
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The Probability Broach: What have the Romans ever done for us?
"What dollar value do you place on having clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and roads that aren’t littered with the smoking wrecks of unsafe vehicles?"
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The Probability Broach: Robots do nothing
John Henry would've been pleased.
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The Probability Broach: Too much freedom
Nothing's more libertarian than a Dust Bowl.
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The Probability Broach: Fair cop
"Why would an accused criminal be so obliging as to put up a bond, if there’s no authority that can force them to do so?"
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The Probability Broach: Economies of scale
Where's my cyberpunk dystopia?
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The Probability Broach: Whose streets? Our streets!
"Reading libertarian novels is like watching a magician’s act. You know you’re being fooled; you just have to spot the sleight of hand when it happens."
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The Probability Broach: Cracks in utopia
"The best way to learn about a civilization, real or fictional, is to look into its cracks—to ask who it’s not serving, and why."
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The Probability Broach: Might makes right
"What would actually happen, if no one had a monopoly on force, is that all the historical factors that led to the creation of states the first time would play out again."
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The Probability Broach: Justice for sale
"That sounds good in theory, but only until some antisocial asshole is making your life miserable and there’s no way to make them stop."
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The Probability Broach: Go directly to jail
"In this society, the CEOs of security firms would literally be above the law. Needless to say, TPB never depicts the extremely foreseeable abuses that would arise."
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The Probability Broach: Crime and punishment
Break out the thumbscrews.
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The Probability Broach: Ook ook
"I mean no disrespect to our ape cousins when I say that they’re not intelligent in the same sense or to the same degree as humans."
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The Probability Broach: Indian trouble
"In this libertarian-friendly alternate history, the Native Americans were still displaced by white colonizers - but they were happy to move and no one felt any resentment over it."
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The Probability Broach: Constant vigilance
"You can put spinning spikes or flamethrowers on your car’s wheels, Mad Max-style, to get revenge if some jerk on the highway tailgates you."
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The Probability Broach: Smoke 'em if you got 'em
Getting your customers addicted for massive profit.
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The Probability Broach: Charity cases
"If you run out of money, do you have to beg in the gutter? Are there debtors’ prisons? Dickensian workhouses where the destitute are put to slave labor? Or are you just expected to die?"
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The Probability Broach: Good guys with guns
Living out every libertarian's hero fantasies.
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The Probability Broach: Affordable care
The libertarian belief that government prevents scientific progress, for some reason.
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The Probability Broach: Coffin nails
Tobacco bans are because the government hates freedom, and for no other reason.
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The Probability Broach: Superfluous villainy
The bad guys in this book are more evil than they have any reason to be.
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The Probability Broach: Minarchists vs. anarchocapitalists
L. Neil Smith asserts the free market can solve problems like law enforcement, but it's a case of "tell, don't show".
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The Probability Broach: Anarchist standard time
Standards make society run, but fractious, disagreeable anarchists could never have them.
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The Probability Broach: Soda pirates
"Property rights, but no laws" is a contradiction in terms.
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The Probability Broach: Worthless yellow rocks
L. Neil Smith almost unconsciously idolizes gold, even though his own philosophy doesn't assign it any special importance.
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The Probability Broach: Corpus delicti
How would an anarcho-libertarian world respond to a deadly pandemic?
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