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OK. You are a Libertarian and Union Carbide buys that land
behind your house. It was a city park when you bought your
house, but in a libertarian world, the city has no business running
parks, so the city sold it to the chemical giant. Of course the neighborhood
was zoned residential, but in a libertarian world, nobody can tell
you what to do with your own land, so there are no longer any zoning laws.

So, now Union Carbide begins dumping tons of green smoking
chemical residue into the creek where your children play,
because, in a libertarian world, no one is going to
tell companies what they can and cannot do. Your wife
delivers her latest child (at home, because, in a libertarian
world, there would be no public hospitals) and that
child seems to have an excessive number of appendages.
You suspect that it may be connected to the fact that the
creek behind your house glows at night.

What are you going to do? Sue Union Carbide? I don’t think
so. They have billions and you are employed by them for
$2.65 an hour because there is no minimum wage or anti-trust
legislation in a libertarian world. Your lawyer wants
$145,000 up front plus another $200,000 for the lab to test
the stream because, you got it, there is no government
testing in a libertarian world.

Ayn Rand was a fucking idiot and the followers of Ayn
Rand can’t get past the less government, lower taxes, let us
have our drugs and guns, mantra to consider what a looneytarian
world it would be.

–Dan–