Reason.com
by Damon Root
February 19, 2014

At Slate, University of Chicago law professor Eric Posner adds his voice to the growing chorus of disapproval directed at so-called “paranoid libertarians,” the group who allegedly “distrusts the government to an unreasonable extent.” According to Posner, paranoid libertarians pose a genuine risk to the social order, since their incessant harping on government misdeeds threatens to undermine the functioning of the American state. “If people trust the government, they may accept its assurances that flying or nuclear power is safe. They may absorb the messages of its educational programs. If they don’t trust the government, then no go,” Posner writes.

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http://reason.com/blog/2014/02/19/anothe...-about-paranoid