Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!mwm From: mwm@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Libertarianism Query - (nf) Message-ID: <10100076@ea.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 00:08:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ea.10100076 Posted: Tue Aug 14 00:08:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 06:54:13 EDT References: <130@zinfande.UUCP> Lines: 32 Nf-ID: #R:zinfande:-13000:ea:10100076:000:1098 Nf-From: ea!mwm Aug 7 23:08:00 1984 #R:zinfande:-13000:ea:10100076:000:1098 ea!mwm Aug 7 23:08:00 1984 /***** ea:net.politics / zinfande!berry / 8:08 pm Aug 4, 1984 */ Here's a query for all the Libertarian apologists out there (BTW, the term 'apologist' is not derogatory...). Now I have 'cause for action' against this arsonist right? I sue him, the neighbors testify and I win the judgement. The arsonist says '**** you, I ain't paying". --berry -- Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900 /* ---------- */ (BTW, I don't think of myself as defending libertarianism, I think of myself as teaching it Socratically.) Ah, yes, the "people aren't perfect" problem - the problem that *every* form of government has. We libertarians know it exists, and that's why we think there should be a government. You appear to be confusing libertarians with the anarchists. Ideally, you should only realize that there is a government if you are involved in an some such disagreement. In other words, until somebody thinks you are infringing on their rights, or vice versa, the government (the people that control the force) doesn't interfere in your life.