{"id":25039,"date":"2014-04-08T11:58:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T16:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25039"},"modified":"2014-04-08T11:58:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T16:58:37","slug":"ten-un-answerable-questions-for-libertarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/04\/08\/ten-un-answerable-questions-for-libertarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten un-answerable questions for libertarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uh-oh, <em>Bleeding Heart Libertarians<\/em> has <a href=\"http:\/\/bleedingheartlibertarians.com\/2014\/04\/10-questions-libertarians-cant-answer-and-hope-you-wont-ask\/\" target=\"_blank\">spilled the beans<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>10 Questions Libertarians Can\u2019t Answer, and Hope You Won\u2019t Ask!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Libertarianism philosophy is like a cockroach that scurries away once you shine the light of reason on it. Here are 10 hard questions libertarians can\u2019t answer.<\/p>\n<p>1. Which Koch brother has more authority over you? [&#8230;]<br \/>\n2. Which corporation should rule the world?  [&#8230;]<br \/>\n3. When oppressing the poor, is it better to use kicks or punches? Or should you hire other poor people to beat up poor people for you? [&#8230;]<br \/>\n4. If you\u2019re so smart, how come not everyone\u2019s a libertarian? [&#8230;]<br \/>\n5. Wasn\u2019t America libertarian in 1850? Or at least 1870? And isn\u2019t American 2014 clearly better than American in 1850 or 1870?  [&#8230;]<br \/>\n6. How could a libertarian society produce new generations?  [&#8230;]<br \/>\n7. If Murray Rothbard was such a badass anarchist, why did he work for a state university?  [&#8230;]<br \/>\n8. Come to think of it, how can libertarianism ever get going without stealing from the government?  [&#8230;]<br \/>\n9. Which political leaders will you put on your currency?  [&#8230;]<br \/>\n10. If capitalism is so awesome, why is anyone still poor?  [&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to Julian Sanchez who offers this trigger warning:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Clarification for Salon readers: This is a joke \/\/ 10 Questions Libertarians Can\u2019t Answer, and Hope You Won\u2019t Ask! <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/5osbPTASL6\">http:\/\/t.co\/5osbPTASL6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Julian Sanchez (@normative) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/normative\/statuses\/453520257664430080\">April 8, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uh-oh, Bleeding Heart Libertarians has spilled the beans: 10 Questions Libertarians Can\u2019t Answer, and Hope You Won\u2019t Ask! Libertarianism philosophy is like a cockroach that scurries away once you shine the light of reason on it. Here are 10 hard questions libertarians can\u2019t answer. 1. Which Koch brother has more authority over you? [&#8230;] 2. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,10],"tags":[550,463],"class_list":["post-25039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-liberty","tag-libertarianism","tag-parody"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6vR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25040,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25039\/revisions\/25040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}