Libertarians-in-Somalia

The act of giving a party exactly what they ask for, with the intent to demonstrate flaws. Taken from the idea that if Libertarians, who claim to want almost no governmental control, were made to live in Somalia, an actual near-lawless state, they would change their views.

Letting my son stay up as long as he wants is like Libertarians in Somalia: everything he claims to want, and it's killing him.

My son wouldn't drop his insistence at a later bedtime, so I adopted a Libertarians-in-Somalia approach. He always goes to bed on time now.

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