“Max’s point was not…
“Max’s point was not that he wanted to boil people, or that he would enjoy it, or that we should.”
But Bob, nobody that I’ve read on this topic yet has claimed that Borders advocates boiling people alive. What Barganier and others have pointed out is that Borders’ own stated position *leaves the question open for deliberation* based on considerations of strategy and personal taste. Whatever you might think of that account, it’s not a libertarian account, but rather something else.
“The point was simply that it was neither moral or immoral. And I challange anyone to prove otherwise.”
The argument has already been taken up elsewhere (at http://radgeek.com/gt/2004/12/05/the_humane among other places). There is no possible non-question-begging argument that Borders could give for the (moral) permissibility of boiling innocent foreigners alive; any argument that shows a set of premises lead to that conclusion is, at the strongest, a reductio ad absurdam of the premises that are used.
Anticopyright.