This puts a lot of libertarian stuff I never understood into perspective. There’s that really terrible book The God of the Machine that used to be a libertarian Bible. I don’t remember much, but I recall an example of the first individualists were Christians who didn’t consent to Roman law. I never quite got how that was supposed to be libertarian, but now I get it.
It’s all magic words to them. “I do not consent” is a magic phrase that’s supposed to confer cosmic power onto them. If you don’t respect the words, then you’ve committed an act of aggression regardless of the context of the situation. This explains sovereign citizens too.
This puts a lot of libertarian stuff I never understood into perspective. There’s that really terrible book The God of the Machine that used to be a libertarian Bible. I don’t remember much, but I recall an example of the first individualists were Christians who didn’t consent to Roman law. I never quite got how that was supposed to be libertarian, but now I get it.
It’s all magic words to them. “I do not consent” is a magic phrase that’s supposed to confer cosmic power onto them. If you don’t respect the words, then you’ve committed an act of aggression regardless of the context of the situation. This explains sovereign citizens too.