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I knew you were going to do this.

This isn't about slavery, get over it. What I posted was on point and the country was libertarian. It wasn't all whites that owned slaves either, there were black slave owners.

If we did everything the same as we did then only with free slaves, would you say it's not libertarian?

You are only focusing on one group (not surprised), just think about how the country operated.

It was a libertarian society for everybody except the slaves, ok. Swaying the debate in this direction (after slavery was already mentioned by Disillusioned in the second post) is just tiring. Nobody here is advocating slavery.


edit: And yes, you are overreacting because of PC in 2009.
OK, if we buy the slaves don't count thing, and say this was a Libertarian society, it was a society that went right into a civil war that killed over a half million people.
So everyone was better off?
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RE: the rankings from earlier...

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3 Canada 82.34 79.38 9 68.06 15 99.59 9
Canada is the third most libertarian.
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Somalia has a libertarian form of government, with a relatively weak central government and a private sector that's free to do almost whatever it wants.
Not really. Somalia is loosley governed by a transitional charter signed off on by various authoritarian powers. There are no elections, thus removing a major tenet of a libertarian society which is the freedom to choose who your leaders are, to have the consent of the goverened. And this govt is 2 years old.
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I knew you were going to do this.

This isn't about slavery, get over it. What I posted was on point and the country was libertarian. It wasn't all whites that owned slaves either, there were black slave owners.

If we did everything the same as we did then only with free slaves, would you say it's not libertarian?

You are only focusing on one group (not surprised), just think about how the country operated.

It was a libertarian society for everybody except the slaves, ok. Swaying the debate in this direction (after slavery was already mentioned by Disillusioned in the second post) is just tiring. Nobody here is advocating slavery.


edit: And yes, you are overreacting because of PC in 2009.
Nobody here has claimed you are advocating slavery. My only claim is that you cannot call a society with legal slavery "libertarian". Slavery was the basis of the economy for a large part of the country - not some irrelevant side issue. My reaction has zero to do with PC and everything to do with the conditions on the ground in post revolutionary america.
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