A decade ago, this image went mega-viral on Google+. In the ensuing years, it has been adapted and reused thousands of times.
@cra1g created this instantly viral image and tells the story of its evolution here:
https://medium.com/@CRA1G/the-evolution-of-an-accidental-meme-ddc4e139e0e4
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That is the fallacy of #Twitter today.
Remove the fence and everyone is equally endangered.
There can be very negative forms of equality.
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In the absence of the fence...
Libertarians would build fences for just themselves using trees they had grown from acorns and milled into lumber using tools they had crafted in order to avoid being beholden to society.
Republicans would build the wall to keep the ethnic players at bay, leaving holes big enough for baseballs to fly through to better watch the game.
Democrats would have paid for tickets and be sitting in the stands.
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Libertarians would _talk_ about building fences just for themselves, and spend many hours online debating the fine points such as which species of tree could be grown with the fewest external resources etc. But no real-life tree would ever be in danger of conversion into any Libertarian fencing.
@PaulTheFossil @vosje62 @conradhackett @cra1g @sociology @politicalscience
I know a cool libertarian--hard to believe such a person even exists.
His company keeps a portion of any commercial or retail space they build and the team shares the profits from it.
He had a project that was going to lose money. He gave his staffers the option of moving to other projects.
After the people who opted out left the room he handed the people who remained $50,000 each. The profit they would have made.
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