It’s time for libertarian wonkery! My friend Jeremy posted a link to libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick’s Tale of the Slave on Facebook and I guess most of his Facebook friends are not libertarians as it stirred up a bunch of controversy.
If you haven’t read it I’d recommend doing so. It’s only about a two minute read. But nonetheless I will summarize it here.
Nozick starts by describing a typical case of slavery and then in subsequent steps modifies the terms of the slavery to be slightly less bad than the previous step. After a handful of modifications he ends up at representative democracy and asks “At which step did this become no longer a tale of a slave?”.
The intuitive response you’re supposed to have is that it never really stopped being a tale of a slave. The only difference is a matter of degree. This is reminiscent of…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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