More on flocking animals

First of all, I didn't mean to impugn Uncle in my earlier post on flocking animals; it's my opinion that he's one of the few who 'gets it' about libertarianism, and the post of his I linked is spot on.

Rather, I was trying to point out how suddenly, seemingly from out of nowhere, there comes a great hoaring mob of ... well ... idiots trying to set Uncle straight. As of this writing, there are almost 100 comments to that post, and it has predictably devolved into trying to teach a pig to sing.

Vox Day has an opportunity to weigh in on this topic, and the larger issue of how most non-libertarians misunderstand exactly what a libertarian is:

This is a wildly incorrect notion of libertarianism and is almost precisely backwards. It is because libertarians understand that people are capable of committing great acts of evil, especially the sort of people who desire power over others, that they wish to prevent government from interfering in people’s lives to the greatest extent possible. We libertarians most certainly do NOT believe that people will do the right thing if left to their own devices, rather, we believe that since most people will do the wrong thing if given power over others, it is in the interests of everyone to make sure that the force multiplier offered by government to those people is as small as possible.

RTWT (including the comments), because he makes a very salient point about the supreme court and 'interpreting' law - remember, the supreme court at one time said that Jim Crow laws were A-OK under the constitution.

Now, in the comments of Uncle's post, I was labeled a troll. Not so ..... I merely made a comment as to the dynamics of the posts' comments, and a snarky bit about the content of those comments. I stand by that comment.

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