{"id":5007,"date":"2017-11-24T04:51:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T04:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/24\/mary-jane-and-the-stupidity-of-libertarians\/"},"modified":"2017-11-24T04:51:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T04:51:54","slug":"mary-jane-and-the-stupidity-of-libertarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/24\/mary-jane-and-the-stupidity-of-libertarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Jane and the Stupidity of Libertarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Colorado&#39;s pot experiment is having <a href=\"https:\/\/m.gazette.com\/editorial-the-sad-anniversary-of-big-commercial-pot-in-colorado\/article\/1614900\">disastrous results<\/a>. No surprise. We conservatives told you so. A cautionary tale for other states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Libertarians falsely assume that we are all rational agents who know their own long-term best interest and are willing and able to act upon that knowledge.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Anyone with any experience of the world and the people in it knows that the characteristic libertarian assumption is manifestly false.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">More trenchant critiques of libertarian folly <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/libertarianism\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado&#39;s pot experiment is having disastrous results. No surprise. We conservatives told you so. A cautionary tale for other states. Libertarians falsely assume that we are all rational agents who know their own long-term best interest and are willing and able to act upon that knowledge.&#0160; Anyone with any experience of the world and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/24\/mary-jane-and-the-stupidity-of-libertarians\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mary Jane and the Stupidity of Libertarians&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}