On the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, I find this passage by Gene Callahan. It will convince absolutely no one, but its very amusing: When I mentioned to a friend of mine that I am an anarchist, he brought up the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire of 1911, which killed 146 women: not enough government, and something bad happened. Certainly it was a horrible event, making any of the tragedies caused by governments, such as the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian famine, the rape of Nanking, the Bataan death march, the Holocaust, the fire-bombing of Dresden, the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Vietnam War, and the killing fields of Cambodia, pale in comparison. The logic is flawless: when a private business accidentally kills 146 people, we need to increase the power of the government, an entity that deliberately kills millions. lewrockwell/1970/01/gene-callahan/we-need-the-stateu2026-otherwise-something-bad-might-happen/
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:42:50 +0000
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