I don’t want to join the pile-on of Sage Rat, but want to extend the Pitting to all Libertarians.
Libertarians, if they’re intellectually consistent, will applaud that people have the Liberty to enter into employment contracts. Indentured servitude was often voluntary – or almost always voluntary if you include impositions to compensate for an unpaid debt that was voluntarily assumed. Medieval serfdom was voluntary(*): to be an unarmed man without a liege lord was suicidal in those Libertarian days.
And Libertarians, if they’re consistent, should applaud that poor children have the Liberty to become slaves and help pay off their parents’ debts.
(* - When children were considered the property of their parents, parents had the Liberty to impose their servitude on children, born or unborn, and on their descendants as well. America’s Hyperlibertarians do retain eough neurons not to carry their despicable ideology that far.)
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Sorry for the hijack. I feel that the perverse Libertarian philosophy, which infects many young Americans ( ), is far more worthy of our contempt than Sage Rat. OTOH, Mr. Rat may himself be a Hyperlibertarian: