WILLIAM ON THE PURPOSE OF PROPERTARIANISM If you investigate less advanced count

WILLIAM ON THE PURPOSE OF PROPERTARIANISM

If you investigate less advanced countries, such as Papua New Guinea and see how they live and behave, by searching “Papua New Guinea witchcraft” (or “Africa witchcraft”), you will discover that liberty is not an intrinsic right. Rousseau’s Noble Savage is a lie to justify the revolution – there are just savages – they lack all nobility. In nature, the life of Man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short (Hobbes).

When you are subject to pure animal whims, then you don’t live in a condition of liberty. If you can’t grow your crops without your neighbors stealing them, then you don’t have liberty. If you can’t raise a family without the government impoverishing you in old age, you don’t have a condition of liberty. A state of liberty is only produced through the wise application of violence. (prevent parasitism, prevent imposition of cost)

In our modern society, we are so domesticated that we have been separated from this fact that we have even developed mythologies about ‘the state’ as this evil actor which only exists to oppress us. States are simply machines. Some machines produce more noise, heat and smoke (negative externalities) than others. Either way, we need those machines, because they are what separate us from the savages. Propertarianism tries to help us build the best machine, with the fewest negative externalities.