“And best of all, it is justified because, well, someone else did something bad elsewhere.”
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Josh, you nailed it. That’s Rob Ellison’s excuse for Pinochet’s crimes against the Chilean people.
Hayek believed the end justified the means and Rob agrees. The end was Hayek’s utopia of freedom and the means was Pinochet’s dictatorship. But the utopia was a failure and Chile, turning away from Hayek’s vision, elected a socialist president. Thousands of Chileans were murdered in the name of an ideology that failed to deliver what it promised.
Rob Ellison is not the only one here who embraces the Hayek’s failed ideology. Apparently, these ideologues want to give it another chance, even at the risk of having thousands more murdered. Ironically, the utopia of freedom seems to work only under a dictatorship. Democracy is it’s enemy.