Kulturkampf

[benji]

Do you mean me personally or libertarian thought more generally?

In either case, I find the middle one to be the only questionable one and that libertarians generally take more issue with those who receive stolen labor than those who steal the labor. I take the position of the US Postal Service, that you are not required to pay for unsolicited goods. In other words, by all means shoot the tax man, but just ignore welfare queens. Generally the hatred seems to be directed more at the latter, sometimes almost to the exclusion of the former.

I think the main question you would want is who is the immediate initiator of aggression. The thief is the aggressor and thus loses his moral defense against further aggression against himself. Most everyone aside from me and a few others seems to believe that anything that can be interpreted as possible aggression is fair game for violence against someone. So it's perfectly fine to bomb a foreign city because by a long trail of other actions they had a possible hand in lowering your property value and you're defending against this theft. Or to murder a CEO because you got optional surgery from others in the same industry and it didn't work out the way you wanted. I think those are the people who aren't articulating any line at all.