Anonymous asked: What IS "#the best heuristic for oppressed people since sharp stick time"?
Libertarianism/anarchism. Most of people’s problems have been created, or made worse, by government violence, and just removing the government violence from them would help a lot. Obviously not perfect, but when one is in a hole one should stop digging first.
The sharp stick time is about how the instant animals discovered that they could use violence to maintain positions of power and make others submit to them things went to shit, and now we’re painfully trying to climb out.
And a lot of things are really tempting targets for government intervention, but usually such intervention ends up just making things horrible in a different way. The government shouldn’t regulate people’s personal lives (not that much anything else either, but personal lives are extra-big in this) even where it would seem like a really great idea to regulate because there’s absolutely no way to know what things they end up destroying with their regulations. Poor people need economic opportunities, not massive paperwork they may be cognitively incapable of properly processing in welfare and employment alike; trans people need bodily autonomy, not gatekeeping monopoly clinics; sex workers need freedom and safety, not paternalistic licensing or prohibitionism; refugees need permission to come to the west and work if they can, not arduous asylum application agony; etc.
And thus my category tag for freedom, especially in personal life, was born.
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