http://libertarianrealist.blogspot.com/2013/06/libertarian-suicide.html
Letter to Don Boudreaux
http://libertarianrealist.blogspot.com/2013/06/letter-to-don-boudreaux.html
Immigration: The Practice of the Principle
http://cafehayek.com/2013/06/immigration-the-practice-of-the-principle.html
Hypocrites & Half-Wits: A Daily Dose of Sanity from Cafe Hayek by Donald J. Boudreaux
Occasionally, advocates of an absurd position reveal its absurdity better than any intellectual adversary ever could. A case in point comes from a recent commentary by libertarian economist Don Boudreaux, who supports open immigration at all costs. Literally, at all costs.
Boudreaux acknowledges that some populations of immigrants may impose negative political externalities for liberty via their reliably statist voting patterns, among other things. A free society would face an existential threat from mass immigration from populations hostile to liberty. For example, immigrants from backward Muslim countries tend to commit high rates of rape and other crimes, tend to set up no-go Sharia zones within cities, and tend to riot and issue death threats in response to Muhammed cartoons and other expressions of free speech. And if only 0.01% of foreign-born Muslims are terrorist threats, then you better hope a free society's foreign-born Muslim population stays under 10,000.
Why should advocates of liberty tolerate any such threats to or erosions of their liberties? In a worst-case scenario, such pathological libertarian tolerance results in a free society becoming demographically controlled by hostile authoritarians. Libertarian suicide is the potential price that must be paid for an a priori, acontextual prescription of open borders for all comers.
Libertarian economist Don Boudreaux illustrates this observation perfectly. He writes, "I still support open immigration. I cannot bring myself to abandon support of my foundational principles just because following those principles might prove fatal."
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