A libertarian country in the middle of the ocean?

This is one of the most interesting ideas I have seen in a while.
Needless to say, I am excited. Yet a part of me tells me that it will result in something like what one commenter predicts:
It sounds like a great idea, seeing as anyone with a boat could hook up to whichever jurisdiction they [...]

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The insanity of collectivism

“Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Dutch to ban magic mushrooms?

This is very depressing news.
The Dutch cabinet has proposed a ban on the sale of all hallucinogenic “magic” mushrooms because they could induce life-threatening behaviour.
A bill will now pass to the Dutch parliament, where a majority of lawmakers are expected to back a ban after a teenage French girl who had eaten mushrooms died jumping [...]

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Ten years ago

Apropos of nothing…I remembered myself from ten years back.
When I hated all mongerers of superstition; when I simply could not fathom why the government did not declare the practice of astrology, quackery, faith-healing and all related unscientific mumbo-jumbo illegal; when I would have liked all religious extremists and preachers of hate put behind bars; when the ultimate [...]

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