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He was the first character created by the studio. Franois Ren Rideau fare. This 3. 30. 00 word essay. I presented. in the speech I gave on November 1. Liberty 2. 00. 2 Conference organized in London by. Libertarian Alliance and. Libertarian International. The essential intuition. I had already exposed in articles previously published in French. Ltatisme, forme moderne de la magie noire. Magie blanche contre magie noire. English as. White Magic vs Black Magic. However, the present essay is considerably expanded. Note that the slightly edited contents of section 2 of this essay. Public Goods Fallacies. False Justifications For Government. A previous version of this essay has been published. Qubcois Libre as a series of three articles. Part One QL 1. 26. Part Two QL 1. 27. Part Three QL 1. I also feel particularly honored that Christian Michel selected. Knowing. I since translated the essay to French. Ltat, rgne de la magie noire. Subsequent speeches I made at. Libertarian International events. The Enterprise of Liberty vs The Enterprise of Politics. October 2. 00. 4. Capitalism is the Institution of Ethics. Introduction. 1. 1 A Grim Conclusion. The Question of Government. Government The Official Justifications. Public Goods. 2. 2 The Ad Hoc Fallacy in Any Collectivism. A Brief Review of Statist Justifications. Explaining Irrationality Rationally. Opinions And Interests. Patterns In Irrationality. Government The Unofficial Justification. Black Magic vs White Magic. Two Opposite Attitudes. The Magic Color Of Life. A Comparative Table. Magic Formulas. 5 The Magic of Human Action. Good, Knowledge of Good, and Action toward Good. The Hierarchy vs The Enterprise. Statistics vs Cybernetics. The Law of Eristic Escalation. Black Magic At Work. Human sacrifices. Black Magic Spells. Staging the Worship. Does Black Magic Work Conclusion The Real Enemy. The Enemy is Enmity itself. Know Thy Enemy. 7. Strike The Root. 7. Hope Ahead. 1. 1 A Grim Conclusion. Unless you visited my website recently. I mean. you are probably befuddled by the title of my essay. Government is the Rule of Black Magic. On Human Sacrifices and Other Modern Superstitions. Youre wondering. Enemy, but only the visible manifestation. Evil that dominate our world through black magic. Well, yes Im a looney, and yes this will be more or less my conclusion. But my bet is that before you reach the end of this essay. Actually, since youre reading this page. To convince you, I will only have to cast a new light on this Evil. The Question of Government. But first things first. If I am to tell you the intellectual trip that led me to this grim conclusion. I might as well start from my point of departure. The question that bugged me is a question that must bug most. And most libertarian activists are probably the same kind. I am. i. e. NT in the Myers Briggs typology. Without analyzing the details for the moment. Public Goods argument. The public good considered may be. Unhappily, many libertarians concede some public goods to the statists. To paraphrase Emile Faguet. Whole Winnie The Pooh Movie Online. Indeed, using arguments of the public goods type. But of course, intervention is based on the premise that government. The Ad Hoc Fallacy in Any Collectivism. The arguments for the collectivization of some service. Why pick any particular form of collectivization Indeed, why collectivize or not collectivize, say, toilet paper Isnt there but a more specific need to collectivize. S After all, some company may very well have a dangerous monopoly on these. Or why isnt there instead a need to collectivize production of all paper Why collectivize at the scale of Great Britain Why not collectivize at a smaller scale. Westminster or the block next door Or at a larger scale, say Northern Eurasia, or our quadrant of the Milky Way And why collectivize it on a geographical scale at all Why not collectivize for people whose name begin with an R. As for arbitrarily choosing the scale. Or if we are to take the opposite view, why stop If collectivization of the considered service is of such an importance. And why stop there even Before we have any respect for individual rights. Collectivists implicitly accept that their argument is not universal. What are these counter effects, their relevance, their limits Only by identifying and studying these counter effects. In other words, their claim contains its very own contradiction. Their call for governmental coercion is based. This is the case of all statist justifications. A Brief Review of Statist Justifications. Here is a brief review of the justifications given by statists. Other arguments for public goods. See footnotes for details. The Externalities Theory of public goods. The Game Theory version of public goods. God. that will help people choose the average best scenario. Game Theory. we must consider government officials. Game Theory translates into. With the Impossibility To Exclude and Impossibility to Divide theories. They then introduce the notion that government. This natural monopoly of course is nothing else. The Catastrophe Prevention version of public good. Now, the only way that there could be. Collective will theories. Will of the People. Identity of the Nation. Good of Society. The utopia is assumed to be good in theory. The Broken Window Fallacy supposes that. Of course, when individuals not blessed by this sacred power. The Moral Fallacy supposes that man is too evil or too something. Government is not determined by an external superior force. Actually, its coercive power is of a corrupting nature. The Altruist Fallacy is a particular misconception often used. Moral Fallacy, to justify the necessity of government. This fallacy once again supposes that government. But it also supposes that altruism is in opposition with egoism. And which is so obviously false. The Long Term Interest Fallacy combines. Moral Fallacy with the Catastrophe Prevention Fallacy. Now, only people with property rights truly secured on the long term. However, governments are never secure in their remaining in power. The Uniformity Fallacy assumes that. However, uniformity is not always good in itself. Explaining Irrationality Rationally. Opinions And Interests. It is one thing to know that statist arguments are logical fallacies. What are the mechanisms of thought that lead to developing. How come so many people take it for granted. A common way to answer these questions. From this perspective. This point of view has been successfully used. Public Choice Theory. It is a very important tool to understand. These forces are such that any time there is a potential for exploitation. And the potential in this case. Note that this is another reason why government subsidies are never useful. People specializing in political entrepreneurship. The conclusion of this analysis is that. Inasmuch as the ideas that currently allow for exploitation to exist. It is the voluntary servitude, as La Botie called it. A Robot Captured Photos of What Might Be Melted Nuclear Fuel Inside Fukushimas Reactor No. One of the several brave robots to make one way trips into Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants severely damaged reactors has accomplished what its less fortunate compatriots did not, sending back photos of what appears to be melted nuclear fuel from the interior of the ruined facility. The remotely controlled Toshiba robot, which is similar in design to a submarine, managed to gain some glimpses of a hardened black, grey and orange substance pooled below reactor No. Bloomberg reported on Friday. Officials with Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc. believe the substance is the remains of atomic fuel rods, which melted through and fused with other structural components of the reactor. Identifying precisely where the melted down materials are, and what they are composed of, is critical to the ongoing Tepco cleanup efforts. Never before have we taken such clear pictures of what could be melted fuel, utility official Takahiro Kimoto told reporters, per Bloomberg. We believe that the fuel melted and mixed with the metal directly underneath it. And it is highly likely that we have filmed that on Friday. After the 2. Thoku earthquake and tsunami triggered the plants meltdown, over 1. The reactors at Fukushima remain extremely dangerous In February 2. No. 2 reached at least 6. Tepco robots. While the cleanup is expected to take decades and has an estimated 7.