Saturday, March 5, 2011

Heinlein, Rand, And Gambling

With all the screaming about public and private, am I my brother's keeper, et al, the followers of extreme libertarian/anarchist philosophies have something in common.

They are gamblers who want to believe that they can never lose. Bad luck always happens to someone else. They are better and smarter than everyone else, so they deserve to win. And, keep all winnings. Losers deserve whatever happens to them.

Right up to the point where their own luck runs out. Then, if they lose, they've been violated by an unfair system, and deserve to have the losses they are responsible for socialized (make everybody else pay).

They, in short, are sociopaths. Self-centered, greedy gamblers.

They deserve no sympathy, or place in public decision-making.

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