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To: Texasforever
well let's see...take drugs as an example. If drugs were legal but the user was left to his own devices when he becomes debilitated and unable to support himself then his liberty to do drugs has been balanced by the accountability of either quitting or dying.

Sound pretty libertarian to me.

43 posted on 12/23/2001 11:12:32 PM PST by A.J.Armitage
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To: A.J.Armitage
Sound pretty libertarian to me.

Nope, conservative, in that I recognize the fact that human nature, being what it is, is to go in the opposite direction of liberty without accountability. If the opposite were true, there would be no need for laws of any kind. That is the missing element in the libertarian philosophy, they always assume that human beings are, as a species, rugged individualists and that is just not the case.

44 posted on 12/23/2001 11:26:03 PM PST by Texasforever
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