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I understand that, but don't you think that when attacks and insults come out of nowhere when no one is even talking about libertarianism, don't you think that should be pulled?!? Yes, we libertarians, some of us at least, can give as well as we get. But I've found consistently that certain posters start up on threads such as pedophilia and bestiality and blame Libt.'s out of nowhere. I haven't seen the same from the Libts.

I think that overall, the moderating is even-handed except in that regard. It is to such an extent that it makes me not want to post here all that much. Why is a 'conservative' point of view attacked so consistently by certain posters and allowed to stand? There's a difference between heated statements in an argument versus uncalled-for nastiness out of nowhere.

"I understand that, but don't you think that when attacks and insults come out of nowhere when no one is even talking about libertarianism, don't you think that should be pulled?!?"

I don't know what to say other than I haven't personally seen what you are saying here, but will keep your perception in mind in the future and try to make sure that I am not missing something. Thanks, AM

But I've found consistently that certain posters start up on threads such as pedophilia and bestiality and blame Libt.'s out of nowhere.

Many conservatives who have carefully thought the matter through and judged it against everyday experience have come to the conclusion that libertarian ideology, if consistently followed, must neccessarily tolerate such perversions to the extent that "consent" serves as the polestar moral justification, because "consent" is such a slippery word.

Libertarians may vigorously oppose such perversions and find them personally repugnant beyond belief. But in the next breath they hasten to add with an odd self-righteous sniff and smug wink, "But what a person does in the privacy of his (home)(pigsty) (morgue) is none of my business."

The proponents of these perversions capitalize on this goofy, brainless "see no evil" tolerence and make these perversions the basis of highly visible civil rights movements that guarantee that none of these things stays private but is served up in the popular culture and media 24/7.

In the end, the libertarian "see no evil" tolerence merely guarantees that the pukingly private is made outrageously public. We get more and more of whatever deviant behavior we tolerate.

Libertarians hate to have this pointed out. They accuse libertarian critics of "lying" when such commonsensical observations are made. In the libertarian view, this amounts to an vicious attack in violation of forum rules.