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To: Al Gator

I might be able to see the difference if anyone were able to provide a rationale for it. Given the number of times I have asked for one, and the total absence of an explanation, Ockham's Razor leads me to believe that there isn't any.

Really, what's to stop a libertarian society from existing in the absence of a stifling social order? Why are not the values expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution not sufficient? Or do you consider those values to constitute a stifling social order?


155 posted on 03/04/2005 10:04:50 AM PST by thoughtomator (National Socialist, Transnational Socialist, what's the difference?)
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To: thoughtomator

Maybe I not understanding what you want.

A rational?

Do we start with why humans socialized in the first place and then move forward through time and history? Or can we assume a starting point somewhere along the way?


158 posted on 03/04/2005 10:07:43 AM PST by Al Gator (God did not give us life so that we could run and ask a bureaucrat what to do with it.)
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To: thoughtomator

The values of the constitution are indeed sufficient if everyone agrees to honor them.

Trouble is, not everyone is created equal.

Libertarians tend to think that everyone else is as self sufficient as you.

That is not true. And therein lies the beginning of the end of minimalist government.


160 posted on 03/04/2005 10:09:49 AM PST by Al Gator (God did not give us life so that we could run and ask a bureaucrat what to do with it.)
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