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wbsss4412 on Jan 6, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: What the world will be like in a hundred years (19...

You just said that interference with private transactions was by definition a violation of liberty, so any outside action of the state would be at best a violation of liberty to secure liberty, somehow. Which, is somewhat nonsensical. There is no well defined liberty math.

thegrimmest on Jan 6, 2022 [–]

> a violation of liberty to secure liberty

You've pretty much got it. These are the only legitimate violations of liberty. Doesn't seem nonsensical to me.

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