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A libertarian society doesn't coddle you, but it still accepts that the state has monopoly of force, and it accepts that the state needs to be fair and predicta

A libertarian society doesn't coddle you, but it still accepts that the state has monopoly of force, and it accepts that the state needs to be fair and predictable. I think the author's fear would be that we currently live in an informational vortex that threatens to destabilize and consume our democracies and societies, and remove even the possibility of a fair and predictable state. And I would argue that that is hardly an outlandish fear. It's barely an extrapolation at all.

watwut 4mo ago
> A libertarian society doesn't coddle you, but it still accepts that the state has monopoly of force, It does not accept that. In particular, libertarians are very ok with domestic violence. Quite a lot of libertanism is all about creating conditions where poorer or weaker people have no realistic recourse.