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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 8, 2025

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Dubai has Sharia And Civil Law dude, it’s not a socioeconomic laissez-faire society.

In libertarian world, society is as laissez faire as owner of the society (technically, land where the society is) wants it to be. Do not like it? Pull yourself by your bootstraps and build your own society.

In libertarian world, society is as laissez faire as owner of the society (technically, land where the society is) wants it to be. Do not like it? Pull yourself by your bootstraps and build your own society.

And in the real world, don't blame people for not following in lockstep with the libertarian fantasy when they decide to pull themselves up by their bootstraps by pulling out a gun and robbing you of your personal property. Otherwise, have fun homesteading on the eastern plateau of Antarctica. This is why the "libertarian world" will never become what we can the "real world," at any point.

But like he said, lots of people want to live there. And who wants laissez-faire anyway?

But like he said, lots of people want to live there.

Then why does he keep responding to an argument I’m not making?

… it is not exactly known as land of freedom…

“Yeah yeah, I understand what you’re saying but I’m going to ignore it and replace your statement with one you didn’t make and reply to that instead.”

My entire statement was about a socially and economically hands off, laissez-faire society. That is absolutely ‘not’ what Dubai is, and not by a long shot.

Your argument was that private and corporate owned cities would be "world so full of hate that no human being would want to live in it." Dubai is closest real world example of propertarian utopia.

Dubai isn't even remotely close to something like that. Perhaps the closest thing I can think of to an anarcho-capitalist (i.e. "feudal") society is something like minimal, positive non-interventionism in Hong Kong. Have some people benefitted? Sure. If you're one of the 220,000 people that still live in cages, probably not. I'm not going to bid on that kind of future.

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