Statism is Not the Finest Part 1

This is a superb and highly thought provoking post which I cannot express adequately my appreciation for.

"Robert Higgs, a professor and philosopher, put it this way:
"Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberately starve millions of Ukrainians; they did not create a system of death camps to kill Jews, gypsies, and Slavs in Europe; they did not fire-bomb scores of large German and Japanese cities and drop nuclear bombs on two of them; they did not carry out a 'Great Leap Forward' that killed scores of millions of Chinese; they did not attempt to kill everybody with any appreciable education in Cambodia; they did not launch one aggressive war after another; they did not implement trade sanctions that killed perhaps 500,000 Iraqi children. In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy's mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state's mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous."

This is utterly devastating to the rationale of statists, and reveals that it is states that are almost exclusively the cause and source of crimes against humanity, genocide, and the ills faced by society.

Thanks!

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lucylin (67) · 5 years ago

An excellent post, sir.

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freebornangel (73) · 5 years ago

Thanks, I worked real hard on it.

unknownonline (45) · 5 years ago

yea you must of.

Lol, this is a cross post, if he wanted to comment the author he should've clicked the pool his post link above.
But, maybe he was talking to me, so I gave an answer that kinda conveyed that.

valued-customer (67) · 5 years ago

Yeah, that guy gets it.