• ancap shark@lemmy.today
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    19 days ago

    who effectively want to tear down as much government as possible, […]. It’s the ideology of an extraordinarily unregulated market – a true “free market”

    I agree with that.

    which is a monopolistic and wildly unethical disaster waiting to happen.

    I obviously don’t agree with that. Monopolies depend on the government to exist. I will not elaborate further because I’m not feeling like arguing with strangers on the internet today

    who view “your freedom ends at my face” as an insult

    I really don’t know what that means

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      19 days ago

      Monopolies depend on the government to exist.

      I very much disagree but respect a desire to not get into a debate, so I’ll leave it there.

      I really don’t know what that means

      “Your freedom ends at my face” is a saying used often here to contend with right-wing group’s insistence on “freedom,” often the kind that involves harming others; e.g. free speech absolutism and the “freedom” to spout neo-Nazi rhetoric that advocates for the murder of minorities, or the “freedom” to not get vaccinated and thus worsen a pandemic. A more full version might be “Your freedom to throw a punch ends where my face begins.” The idea is that it is fair to restrict a freedom if it supports the freedom of others — you might not trust governments to determine where those lines lie, and that’s fair, but that’s a separate issue.