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To: elfman2
Libertarians do not advocate anarchy. But lies on this subject are common. For authoritarians, anything less than total government control of all human action is anarchy. It's an odd mental disease.

Libertarians know that the proper role of government in a free society is to defend the rights of it's citizens, nothing more.

105 posted on 02/24/2005 8:42:26 AM PST by Protagoras (Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.)
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To: Protagoras
" Libertarians do not advocate anarchy. But lies on this subject are common."

It’s less of a lie than neocons advocating facism. But you posted such a brain dead POS accusation first. So if that’s all you’re capable of, that’s all you get.

Taken to the extreme, removing “big government” as the sole arbitrator of retaliatory force inevitably breeds private armies and anarchy like in Somalia. That’s what many libertarians see as an ideal, and is MUCH less of a stretch than your claim that conservatives are the mirror image of Islam fascism.

I don’t have the patience for this discussion today. Regards

118 posted on 02/24/2005 8:52:58 AM PST by elfman2 (Not paid to be PC)
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To: Protagoras
Libertarians do not advocate anarchy.

Correction. Most Libertarians do not presently advocate anarchy. But the number of anarchist Libertarians is quite large, to include many leading Libertarians of substantial influence.

I disagree with their anarchist positions, but must recognize that they do exist.

258 posted on 02/26/2005 3:10:23 PM PST by jackbob
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