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November 13, 2005

A “complicated word game"?

Stephan Molyneux’s article Disproving the State: Four Arguments Against Government posted at Lewrockewell.com and linked to STR today is an interesting read. However I don’t think it’ll do much in the way of opening any minds to the concept of stateless liberty.

I emailed the article to a friend and she emailed me back later that it seemed to her a “complicated word game”. That means to me that either she didn’t read it all the way through or didn’t understand it if she did. Neither choice is especially good news for people trying to get their point across to the uninitiated though is it?

Please don’t get me wrong. I agreed with Molyneux’s reasoning, but complex philosophical constructs based on the formal rules of logical argument (as are used by academic philosophers) inspire about as much passion as reading a random page in a telephone book. Passion is what inspires and motivates people.

Just my two cents worth here.

Posted by Ali Massoud at November 13, 2005 09:31 AM

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