"Rousseau incorrectly held, essentially, that we are all free insofar as we are equally enslaved. My own view to the contrary is that Rousseau's main failure was his not taking his own anti-slavery position (found elsewhere in his Social Contract) to its logical conclusion. Had he done so, he would have had to adopt the libertarian position and recognise that the so-called "equality" (later) found in Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" is not, in fact, conducive to Liberty."
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Alexander S. Peak, "Reply" (2009)
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