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To: Agamemnon
Interesting choice of words. Ever notice how the word "community" forms the core of the word "communism?"

The core of both of those words is "commune", to be in harmony with others. Communism hardly lives up to its name, but community often does.

As I have stated before, the defining commonality of many libertarians is their disdain and contempt for any society (yes socialism uses the same base word). There is a simple line from a famous piece of writing that I think can determine the difference between a "conservative" and a "libertarian":

Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?"

"I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?"

Most libertarians would answer "no".

56 posted on 01/27/2003 1:32:56 PM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
difference between a "conservative" and a "libertarian"</ i>

That nails it. I've been shocked a few times by the total selfishness and hatred of government that gets espoused in the name of "liberty".

Without someone to defined and enforce the rules, nobody gets to play the game, including libertarians.

65 posted on 01/27/2003 1:47:38 PM PST by DannyTN (Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
"Am I my brother's keeper?" Most libertarians would answer "no".

Voluntarily helping another, ie charity, is entirely compatible with libertarianism. If you ask us "Are you your brother's keeper?" We say, "Yes, when we want to be."

If we are denied that choice, the question is not "Are you your brother's keeper?". It becomes "Are you your brother's slave?"

67 posted on 01/27/2003 1:51:35 PM PST by freeeee
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
"Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?"

"I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?""

Cain killed his brother Abel. The passage gives no more than Cain's attempt to weasel out of acknowledging he killed Abel. You use it as if God gives a command for the elightened of the world to run the lives of their fellows. He didn't! He gave all men a Free will and commanded them all to respect that gift as He does. What part of though shalt not steal don't you get?

105 posted on 01/27/2003 3:25:47 PM PST by spunkets
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