Posted on 02/01/2002 10:21:47 AM PST by Exnihilo
Good God. Did you even read any of this before you posted it?!
Pretty interesting reading.
Why one earth would anyone care that you found a communistic critique of Libertarianism to be "illuminating"?
The Free Market is not "economic injustice", it is the only possible Economic System which conforms to the Law of God.
Frankly, you Communists scare me. You have a nasty record of murdering Christians.
God willing, America will move in a Libertarian direction, and not go down the Christian-killing path of Communism that you find so "illuminating".
Most other definitions of libertarianism borrow from those self-definitions, so I have avoided them.
If you want to write your own defintions of words, you should have asked your hero to help you.
A short pro-libertarian essay by David Friedman is about "bad trucks" - trucks made in the Soviet Union. As Friedman says, "The capitalist truck was built under a system of institutions in which people who build bad trucks are likely to lose money". So in the end, no more "bad trucks" will be built. There is no evidence that Friedman sees anything wrong with this. For him, and many other libertarians, it is self-evident that certain things are "bad": they deserve no existence, and society should be designed to punish them out of existence.
It is self-evident to any sane person that trucks that break down frequently, accelerate slowly to a low top speed, carry smaller passenger and cargo loads than other equally expensive trucks, etc. are "bad" and that it is desirable that resources not be wasted on producing them.
Of course, this argument won't be convincing to people like exnihilo, who reject the notion that there is such a thing as objective truth.
The syncretism of libertarianism is also best visible among cyber-libertarians.
At this point, he reaches the level of obfuscation where even the individual words don't mean anything, or at least they don't mean what he thinks they mean. Thus, I am forced to throw up my hands and quit.
Dude, dead on right, I'd be a hardcore rwer if weed was legal, but all the jesus stuff from the religious maniacs gets tiresome.
1. that they always want revolutionary change rather than baby steps (in an "all or nothing" game, they have too little power to get it all, and that leaves "nothing" everytime)There's something to be said for this argument, IMO it's the difference between LPers and what I call "small l libertarians", which are much more numerous.
I predict that within 20 years, "conservative" and "liberal" will be less meaningful than "libertarian" and communitarian.
-Eric
I usually pass them by as I will pass this guy as I stroll past the ash-heap of history.
Oh, really?
I call it "theft".
You don't care that the article (to the small extent to which it conveys any comprehensible message at all) is an endorsement of communist philosophy?
It's a disease. He can't help himself. Every few months we get a new anti-libertarian lunatic posting the same old anti-libertarian rants that we've all seen dozens of times over the years. He'll be banned soon.
Why don't you just post from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book? It's not quite as socialist as this drivel.
The will to power is a tough one to overcome. The paradox is, once having given up power, you realize that you never needed it in the first place.
The problem we have today is that far too many of us are willing to enforce our vision of what ought to be at the point of a gun. When and where rational me and women of good will disagree, each is free to shrog their shoulders and walk away and let reality be the fianl arbiter. The problem arises when either party seeks to 'improve' the others' judgement at gunpoint. Spiral-eyed liberal/marxist radicals and god-shouting fanatics occupy the same pew in the church of oppression and mass murder. They're worshipping the same set of death-oriented values, like it or not, know it or not.
And I would have sworn that Billzebubba had far too much ego to write under a nom de plume....
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