[quote=sdduuuude]
You are going to have to connect the dots on that one for me. Slavery is a violation of personal rights. How does slavery exist in a free market ?

This is a crazy, nonsensical jump from “libertarian” to “slaver” and “no niggers allowed.”[/quote]

it was in direct response to

This is somewhat similar to the Civil Rights Act and why I think libertarian thought holds human beings to a higher standard. We don’t get our rights from government, we get them from our creator. It’s the people’s duty to act responsibly and respectfully towards one another.

The prohibition against slavery is a government standard. Not a free market or libertarian standard. Prior to that government standard, it (slavery) existed in the free market. (It existed for a good 60 years AFTER that standard was established by the government, but that’s a different story.) His “creator” screwed up on that one. Those rights were withheld by that “higher standard”, which fortunately were superceded by government standards.

[quote=sdduuuude]
Less crazy, but still nutso, is the belief that people need a government to figure out how to not trade chickens and grain.[/quote]

was in response to

I believe that the laws of economics are natural and not determined through the state.

Yes, we probably would. But yet the issuance of currency is not a natural law. Laws of physics are natural laws. The laws of thermodynamics are natural law. Only slightly above trading chickens for grain, we get the social and political construct of a monetary system. There is nothing “natural” about it.