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To: Dead Corpse
If you are pointing a gun at me demanding me wallet, there is no doubt what your intentions are or who I should shoot.

But again you are assuming a behavior that conforms to today.
My point is that he may not point a gun at you and demand your wallet,he may simply shoot you and remove your wallet.

Part of what forms peoples beliefs and moralities are the laws,do away with them and you very easily may do away with that morality.

102 posted on 05/03/2006 4:05:41 PM PDT by carlr
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To: carlr
My point is that he may not point a gun at you and demand your wallet,he may simply shoot you and remove your wallet.

Nothing stopping them from doing that now. Also, it is a MUCH bigger step from armed robbery up to outright murder. Most petty thieves aren't up to real bloodshed.

Either way, you'd still have a MUCH better chance of protecting yourself in a libertarian society as they actively encourage personal arms, rather than today where we are discouraged and merely "allowed" in some juristictions to "maybe" defend your self.

What forms the basis of libertarian thought is self, and ONLY self, ownership coupled with the Non-initiation of force, fraud, theft philosophy. Anyone acting consistant with that philosophy is a "libertarian" whether they are aware of it or not. It also forms the entire basis for a self-governing social structure that is self re-enforcing and driven by basic human nature. It is also simple enough that even those folks of modest intelligence can be taught the basics and live quite easliy by it. I'm currently teaching it to my two year old and even she "gets it".

Also, nothing in libertarianism precludes you holding your own personal religious beliefs. In fact, it leave you free to only interact with those of similar beliefs. If you want to discriminate, go ahead. Someone else will be sure to take that share of the market you don't want if there is a profit in it.

It all goes hand in hand.

110 posted on 05/03/2006 4:15:13 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.)
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To: carlr
My point is that he may not point a gun at you and demand your wallet,he may simply shoot you and remove your wallet.

If a crook tries that in a town where there haven't been any robberies or murders lately, he might get away with it once or twice. Once people become alert to the predator in their midst, however, it wouldn't take him too long to become fatally unlucky. Indeed, most crooks would recognize that before getting into robbery and murder.

114 posted on 05/03/2006 4:23:36 PM PDT by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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