Congrats to Monsanto on the legislation signed today
preventing them being barred from engaging in productive trade every time some
yahoo files another lawsuit calling for further regulatory review of (vital,
harmless) biotech. The foes are Luddites, the endless lawsuits and calls for
unscientific guilty-until-proven-innocent reviews nonsense.
The fact that some libertarians have jumped on the
anti-Monsanto bandwagon is a sad reminder that some libertarians more closely
resemble the "paranoid" stereotype than the "rationalist"
stereotype. I'll happily take the latter caricature if I must pick one.
And it is troubling indeed that some libertarians, in
behavior that would be unbecoming even in an enviro-lefty, will pick and choose
which industries' libertarian impurity to freak out about on grounds having
nothing to do with their degree of deviation from market ideals – selectively
complaining about biotech being subsidized or engaging in lobbying, as if the
same couldn't be said about everything from sofa manufacturing to vacuum
cleaners.
There'd be no need for socialists
to destroy capitalism if free-marketeers eliminated every industry currently
entangled with government. We'd have destroyed industrial civilization all by
ourselves.
By all means get rid of government, but stop quaking in fear
of science...you wretched hippie.
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