Fire Hazard

Saturday 3 December 2011 - Filed under Uncategorized

Danger: Massive strawman ahead. No lighters, matches, or any other sort of open flames allowed.

NOTHING clarifies your thoughts on the role of government quite so much as visiting a place that isn’t governed.

I once visited such a place under construction in Karachi, Pakistan. A developer was building small concrete row houses on land he didn’t own. Electricity came from cables illegally hooked to the nearest power lines. Drinking water came not from plumbing but from delivery trucks. And the children told me they were not attending any school. The nearest thing to the rule of law were the police officers, who collected bribes to pretend that the neighborhood didn’t exist.

Government doesn’t provide my water, electricity, nor did it build my house. My child does not attend a government school (not one fucking dime). Should I expect everything to turn to a third world hellhole at any moment? The New York Times told me that if government didn’t provide all of these things, Mad Maxdom is surely the result. I mean, it couldn’t have anything to do with culture or anything like that. It’s definitely a lack of government. Or something.

2011-12-03  »  madlibertarianguy