Making a new "10 favorite statist arguments" vid. Got any submissions?

Started by Lord T Hawkeye, December 08, 2012, 11:11:19 PM

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So far, I have these

"Well I went through X and it worked fine for me!"
"Well I've paid taxes for years and I don't see any gun aimed at me!"
"We just need small government.  Anarchy is too extreme!"
"But there would be just chaos with no government!"
"Anarchy requires everyone to be saints!"
"But we'll get invaded!"

Anyone got one they'd like added?
I recently heard that the word heretic is derived from the greek work heriticos which means "able to choose"
The more you know...

"If people are allowed to own deadly weapons, they'll just go around murdering each other."
"The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be."
Lao Tzu

In case you haven't covered this one before:

"Without the government, how will we deal with market failures?"

"But you anti-government types still use the roads! You're hypocrites!"

Then there's the bit where they complain about monopolies as a failure of the free market, then turn around and defend government monopolies (power, roads, etc.).


"Capitalism may have worked fine in the 19th century, but now the population is bigger!"