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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Vig, see the guys here will come up with all the ways that you didn't forge ahead on your own. You know, someone else filtered the water and brought in electricity, built the roads and all that jazz. You didn't do it all by yourself.
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Well of course he didn't. That's the great myth of Libertarianism--that we're all self-determining little atoms, pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps independent of all the other little bootstrap-pulling-or-not atoms.
You don't have to reducto-ad-absurdam it about the electricity and the roads, by the way. If the guy really grew up in an orphanage, well yes, it's very impressive that he accomplished what he did, and a testament to his ability to cause results in his life. But there had to be SOMETHING paying for his college. SOMETHING kept him fed and housed, when he was a kid.
He's vehemently opposed to the public dole. Think he's trying to distance himself from anything? The psychology of his position isn't hard to fathom.