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Nudge Yourself Out of My Life

Although physics and other legitimate sciences currently lack a Theory of Everything, the litmus test of policy philosophy and other pseudo-sciences is consistency of political theory.  If you're a libertarian who would nevertheless tax people to prevent children from starving in the streets, prepare your armaments.  You must defend your position, because if your theory is not 100% consistent, it's invalid.   Thus, libertarians have a problem. Like everyone else, libertarian-minded people have ideas about how you should live your life.  I would mandate exercise in exchange for healthcare coverage.  If you don't exercise 30-60 minutes each day, then die.  Yet I realize this drive is Will to Power rather than libertarian philosophy.  The less self-aware have found a way to bring accord to the cognitive dissonance...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on July 08, 2010 (boomark / email).