I saw How To Train Your Dragon today. Libertarians should love this movie for three reasons. (And yes, this contains "spoilers." Do we really have to cater to the "don't spoil the ending!" silliness? What are we, twelve?)
Anyway, three reasons:
1) It has Vikings, and we know libertarians love Vikings, for all that "privatized law" stuff. (Why the Vikings speak with Scottish accents I don't know; perhaps the Scandinavian voice actors are all under contract to Ikea.)
2) The end of the movie shows the benefits of trade between the Vikings and the dragons: prosperity, peace, and pleasure, where once there was darkness and constant rebuilding after war.
3) The major plot point is a great metaphor for the state. Turns out the dragons steal stuff from the Vikings because they have to pay taxes to a really big dragon, from whom they are heroically liberated!
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