01-20-2017, 02:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-20-2017, 02:30 PM by Warren Dew.)
(01-20-2017, 01:56 PM)David Horn Wrote:(01-20-2017, 03:15 AM)Galen Wrote: You like authoritarians when they think like you which is very revealing because saddling everyone with a huge bureaucracy is so liberating.
Why is private power acceptable to libertarians, but public power is not?
Because public power is held by a monopoly: the government can be as unreasonable as it wants, and the individual can do nothing about it.
Private power is normally held by competing providers; if one provider is unreasonable, the individual can switch to a different provider.