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Comment by other_ones

July 4, 2009 @ 11:00 am

I like some of the other ones better.
this one…eh.

Comment by thinkliberty

July 4, 2009 @ 1:50 pm

I like this one. There are a lot of minarchist that call brown people illegal because of where they were born.

It’s not a big of an issue in new england as it is in other areas of the country.

Like CA, TX and AZ

Comment by other_ones

July 4, 2009 @ 2:48 pm

‘a lot’ of minarchists sounds like collectivism.

I know lots of minarchists who are for open borders.

Comment by Erik Voorhees

July 5, 2009 @ 4:41 am

What does racism have to do with Minarchy?? Smearing minarchists as racists is pretty low, Dale.

How does, “I support extremely small government” become “I’m scared of brown people?”

-Erik

Comment by Zeus

July 5, 2009 @ 6:15 am

Dale has confused statism with minarchism, Erik. They’re indistinguishable to him. Don’t try to reason with him. Just accept it as one of the great cosmic mysteries of life and move on. Besides, it’s a comic. It doesn’t have to make sense.

Comment by fester

July 5, 2009 @ 8:58 am

I like this one. I don’t think it strikes to the root as much as some of the other ones, but when you have a minarchist like Ron Paul who is good on almost everything, but then is bad about immigration then it needs to be addressed.

Also I want to mention that I see the comment from “other_ones” as the real problem with minarchism, he states I know lots of minarchists who are for open borders. the fact is I do as well, but I also know some who still make claims like protecting the border is the responsibility of the government. Most minarchists seem to think that the government should be involved in a handful of areas, the problem is that they disagree with each other in what those areas are.

Comment by Erik Voorhees

July 5, 2009 @ 11:12 am

@Fester

I think minarchists generally support government only to the extent that it protects life and property. Ron Paul should not be categorized as a minarchist, but rather a “Constitutionalist” or a very small-government Republican.

Regardless, associating minarchists with racists has no merit. In fact, one might say that such ill-informed generalizations resemble the patterns of reasoning which cause racism in the first place, no?

Comment by Scott in Winnipeg

July 5, 2009 @ 10:39 pm

Strawman.