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To: freeandfreezing

It’s always amusing when someone disagree with you to hear them say, “You don’t understand blah blah at all.”

I do understand libertarianism.

And I understand, perhaps better than you do, that it is closer to liberalism and leftism than it is to what our Founding Fathers implemented...a system that allowed the most freedoms in a framework where the morality was maintained by Judeo-Christian religion and anarchy and license were held in check by a populace that willing controlled their behavior so that others wouldn’t demand a strong government to do so.


51 posted on 01/08/2012 6:58:54 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival. (Ron Paul is the Lyndon Larouche of the 21st century.))
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
I do understand libertarianism.

Your strawman attempt to equate libertarianism with anarchy proves you don't. Or you do, but are unable to refute it without being intellectually dishonest.

a system that allowed the most freedoms in a framework where the morality was maintained by Judeo-Christian religion and anarchy and license were held in check by a populace that willing controlled their behavior so that others wouldn’t demand a strong government to do so.

And apparently, you would be first in line to demand a strong government to control people doing things you think are wrong. This is the difference between a libertarian and a statist like yourself: a libertarian wanting to change a person's behavior would do it with logic and rhetoric, not through government force. I am personally one of the most socially conservative people you could find. And, I would love for everyone to have my same morals and ethics and beliefs. But they must do so of their own volition; not out of fear of violation of the state.

53 posted on 01/08/2012 4:08:32 PM PST by tnlibertarian (Things are so bad now, Kenyans are saying Obama was born in the USA.)
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