Comments on: The Bureaucrash Crash and Structural Activism http://athousandnations.com/2009/06/11/the-bureaucrash-crash-and-structural-activism/ Towards a Cambrian Explosion in Government Tue, 29 May 2012 02:19:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Charles Hueter http://athousandnations.com/2009/06/11/the-bureaucrash-crash-and-structural-activism/#comment-262 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:28:10 +0000 http://athousandnations.com/?p=228#comment-262 Look, it isn’t that trying to influence the state is a priori wrong for some special philosophical reason having to do with trying to with it being immoral and trying do good through an evil system or some other crap I could imagine Ayn Rand saying. It’s wrong because it doesn’t work.

Consequentialism is the bread and butter of modern state justifications. Why embrace one of their central premises? If convincing others something is wrong because it doesn’t “work” then your opponents will logically cloud the discussion with various ways it does work…if only SoAndSo was in charge, if only NewLaw was passed…if only we acted for the benefit of others rather than ourselves…if only the human experiment was tweaked via collective coercion….etc.

I agree libertarian state reform is a functional contradiction and can’t work. But its morality isn’t affected by its pragmatic potential.

]]> By: Matt http://athousandnations.com/2009/06/11/the-bureaucrash-crash-and-structural-activism/#comment-261 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:33:12 +0000 http://athousandnations.com/?p=228#comment-261 “Xaq Fixx’s statement on his exit as Crasher-In-Chief”

On whose exit?

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