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January 17, 2005
The Vitriol Against King
Paleo-Libertarian vitriol against Martin Luther King, Jr. always rings more reactionary than reasoned to me. Certainly, his economics were wrong, but that puts him in the company of just about every other resident of the planet. I'd take up Diogenes' search for the honest man before I took on trying to hunt up a consistent market anarchist. Next, drunkeness and promiscuity are trumpeted as evidence of a deficient character. Sure, they're high time preference, but since completely voluntary, they are no one's business beyond the people involved. I'll grant that theft of intellectual property is possible grounds for some sort of civil action by the injured parties though libertarians debate the concept of intellectual property amongst themselves. But it's hardly a crime worthy of the frothing at the mouth of some detractors.
On the other hand, his agitation for social change through non-violence is a monumentally positive mark for his legacy. And it was a life-risking endeavor, one he knowingly took up, where he could have opted for a safer and more lucrative course. Just imagine if more of the movers and shakers who actually wield the tools of coercion in this world spent more time drunk and laid and less time murdering and plundering.
Finally, any freedom-lover should be happy for as much inefficiency in the government as possible. In the lesser of two evils calculus, I'm much happier to be paying the overwhelming majority of government employees to be doing nothing than to be doing something. And every school child should be grateful for one less day of compulsory attendance. Worthy of worship, no. But worthy of thanks - Dr. King gets mine.
Posted by Robert Jackson at January 17, 2005 05:51 PM
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Comments
The vitriol against King reminds me of that against Jefferson: their choice of targets says more about the detractors than it does about the targets themselves. In the case of Jefferson there is a bit more hypocrisy to be found, as the champion of freedom held people in the most unfree of conditions, but he still has to be judged by the standard of his times. We who discuss morality here could probably be found wanting even by today's barbaric standards, let alone what will be (we hope) in the future. Let us have our symbols, though they may be imperfect, like the rest of us.
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