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To: Redcloak
Ok...I'm in a helpful mood...it's called the "Social Contract". You give up freedom to live harmoniously with other people.

Question: the Supreme Court recently ruled that simulated child pornography is protected by the First Amendment. Let's say your next door neighbor takes a piece of this filth pornography and blows it up to 12' by 12' and constructs a billboard of it in his front yard. It's "his property" and he's "not hurting anyone" and "no child is being harmed". If you're a libertarian, you should have no problem with that, right?

19 posted on 08/23/2002 8:06:34 PM PDT by HumanaeVitae
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To: HumanaeVitae
Your understanding of libertarianism is obviously limited to knowing how to spell "libertarian". (Which, on a positive note, puts you far ahead of many conservatives!)

Part of the libertarian "social contract" is that one may not infringe upon the rights or property of others. Your billboard would adversely affect property rights and thus get the owner sued for damaging those values. See? A tidy solution without the need for a State mandated, tax-payer supported "Committee to Promote Virtue and Prevent Vice". (There's a place where they have such a committee, by the way. You'd probably like the TV fare too, once you learned the language.)
25 posted on 08/25/2002 9:42:21 PM PDT by Redcloak
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