Silk Road Founder Sentenced - Life Without Parole - Page 3

On June 05 2015 18:00 nolan wrote: Show nested quote + On June 03 2015 08:14 Stroggoz wrote: He may have professed libertarian values, but that doesn't make him one. He wanted to murder people, which is an interference in the market. I really find it hard to believe people can sympathize with this guy so much. Maybe his punishment was too severe (as most are in the united states), but it's hard to deny he is a cruel person when reading those chat logs. He is not some political activist freedom fighter, unless of course you value the freedom to murder people and sell drugs. He is just a criminal (and a minor one) compared to the government. You have to attempt to take the murder for hire out of the context here if you're looking at it as a thought exercise, because it wasn't presented in this trial. His sentencing was solely due to running a drug market and some other minor (by comparison) fake ID charges I believe.

He tried to get people murdered, he's not a libertarian.

Yeah he's neolibertarian not libertarian .... not that there is a big difference. Libertarians will use the biggest bullshit excuse to do whatever the fuck they want to do. Libertarians are the ones that went into Afghanistan and into Iraq and got destroyed by criticism. Libertarianism promotes all those good moral ideologies then puts a bunch of exceptions in them to justify whatever they want even if it is the exact opposite of their fundamental ideology. Basically how to be a successful hypocrite