Foreword: I wrote some of my past stories by request of my fans. In a way, I could also say that this story was written by request. However, it would probably be more accurate to say that this story was provoked than requested.
This story is a sequel to W32.GIBE.B@MM: SEXIST MALE CHAUVINIST.
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The erotic writer let a few weeks go by after identifying the militant feminist who had repeatedly sent him flame emails and computer viruses because of his stories about submissive women enjoying rough sex. Then he made a few arrangements in her town not too far from her home and composed the following message.
> FEMINIST RALLY
>
> Due to your unyielding support of equal rights for
> women and support for women's free choice, you have been
> sent this special invitation to participate in our rally
> planned for the 23rd as a special guest.
>
> The following serial number has been reserved for
> you alone to:
>
> 165-281
>
> This code will grant you private access to the rally
> headquarters on the morning of the rally.
>
> If you care about women's rights, as we know you do,
> please don't pass up this special invitation. The
> rally will start at 10:00 AM, but we ask our VIP
> attendees, such as yourself, to arrive by 9:00 for
> the preparations.
>
> Ecologically friendly snacks and beverages
> will be served in the morning to all our honored VIP
> guests. Healthy lunches will be served to our honored
> guests free of charge.
>
> You may, of course, invite friends, family and other
> pro-equality attendees, but please inform them that the
> rally will start at 10:00. We send privileged
> invitations only to those deserving of the honor,
> such as yourself.
Then he sent the message and made further preparations.
On the morning of the "rally," he set up his tables in a small inexpensive banquet hall that he had reserved, and then waited.
A little after 9:00, a lone woman entered the banquet hall. The erotic writer was sitting at one of the tables with assorted pamphlets and brochures scattered across the table.
"Hi," she said, handing him a copy of the email that he had sent to her. "I'm here for the rally."
He was pleased that she took his bait. He would have a lot of fun with her if she accepted his offer.
"Please have a seat," he said.
She sat and glanced at the literature on the table.
"Huh?" she said, picking up a brochure for the
CATO Institute.
She rooted through the other brochures from
International Society for Individual Liberty,
the
Independent Institute,
the
Institute for Justice,
the
Electronic Frontier Foundation,
Reason Magazine,
Fully Informed Juries Association,
and others.
"What the hell is this?" she demanded. "This is all
Libertarian
crap! There's supposed to be a feminist rally here today!"
"There is no feminist rally, my dear. I brought you here to make you an offer."
"What kind of bullshit is this?" she demanded. "You
Libertarians
are against women's rights, equal opportunity, the environment, health care for poor people, and everything else that people ought to care about."
"As they say, that's technically true, but it's not accurate. The
Libertarian
creed can be summed up simply as this: 'It is wrong to initiate force or violence against other people without provocation,' nothing more and nothing less. Everything we believe, from equal rights to the environment, is derived from that simple creed. Or to put it in legalese, we believe that only
malum in se
are the only real crimes. Therefore, it follows that
malum prohibitum
are not crimes at all, but efforts by the politicians and their political supporters to extort property from the public and enslave the public for his or her own material gain and power-lust."
"Really? You you'd let the environment go to ruin, and let homeless people starve?"
"No, we wouldn't. People like you would be free to set up trusts and charities to buy up tracts of land for wildlife refuges, rainforests, homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and so on. What we oppose is that you've given yourselves the legal right to point a gun at my head and reach into my pocket to give charity to those of your choosing, all in the name of 'social good'."
"But social programs
are
good. Without social programs, people would starve, the environment would be polluted, women and minorities would be discriminated against, and, well, the world would be a horrible place."
"Oh come off it! Just do a little research, and you'll find out who's really benefiting from all these environmental and equal rights laws. You'd find that these laws do more to line the pockets of political supporters than to help your causes. And furthermore, all these laws compel people to act through force of mandate -- all these laws and government threats against the American people for breaking them are the biggest cause of our violent society."
"What? You're one of those anti-government kooks too?"
"I'm not against government, just when government abuses its power. When government initiates force against peaceful people to enforce its myriad of petty regulations, it teaches people that using violence against others is an acceptable way to achieve their own goals."
"So you're against all laws? Is that what you're saying?"
"Not at all," he replied. "Government has three basic jobs to perform. One, to enforce laws against physical abuses such as assault, rape, murders, kidnapping, and so forth. Two, to enforce property rights against theft, trespass, and vandalism. And three, to enforce formal contracts between consenting individuals. No more and no less. But when government takes it upon itself to meddle in people's private lives and businesses in other ways, it becomes no different from an organized crime ring using its status to extort property from the public and enforce the ruling elite's personal morality on the masses."
"Damn it! What gives
you
the right to decide what laws are fair or not?"
"You have that backward, baby. Nothing gives me such a right -- just the opposite, nothing gives
you
the right to meddle in people's private affairs, even if you think it's for a good cause."