[Tomalak]

Wasn't that the whole point of the article? That people need to be good all on their own, and you can only have a small state if they do.

[AdamSelene235]

Wasn't that the whole point of the article?

The article is either obtuse or deliberately dishonest.

Given that they deliberately took Dr. Szasz's remarks on the nature of mental "illness" out of context to smear libertarians makes me think it is the later.

FYI, Szasz was arguing that the offending priests should have been charged with crimes rather than placed in treatments centers as they were not suffering from "illness" but were criminals.

Szasz's article is here :

http://reason.com/0208/fe.ts.sins.shtml

[AdamSelene235]

That people need to be good all on their own, and you can only have a small state if they do.

So you think a large, powerful state full of evil people will be just hunky dory?

I reject the dillema.

[DugwayDuke]

"Wasn't that the whole point of the article? That people need to be good all on their own, and you can only have a small state if they do."

You won't convince libertarians that this is the choice. They will insist they can exercise all their freedoms without consequence.