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“An egalitarian society can only hope to achieve its goals by totalitarian methods of coercion; and, even here, we all believe and hope the human spirit of individual man will rise up and thwart any such attempts to achieve an ant-heap world. In short, the portrayal of an egalitarian society is horror fiction because, when the implications of such a world are fully spelled out, we recognize that such a world and such attempts are profoundly antihuman; being antihuman in the deepest sense, the egalitarian goal is, therefore, evil and any attempts in the direction of such a goal must be considered evil as well.” — Murray N. Rothbard
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egalitarian society can only hope to achieve its goals by totalitarian methods of coercion; and, even here, we all believe
and hope the human spirit of individual man will rise up and
thwart any such attempts to achieve an ant-heap world. In
short, the portrayal of an egalitarian society is horror fiction
because, when the implications of such a world are fully
spelled out, we recognize that such a world and such attempts
are profoundly antihuman; being antihuman in the deepest
sense, the egalitarian goal is, therefore, evil and any attempts
in the direction of such a goal must be considered evil as well.