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To: puroresu

What you are arguing for IS Stalinism, my friend.

The whole principle upon which our nation was founded is based around the idea that government exists to PROTECT the rights of individuals..... not to enforce some sort of standard of “good” behavior among it’s citizens.

The latter describes exactly the sort of radical islamic regiemes that we are fighting against today. It also describes exactly the Communist states that we fought against in the Cold War and the Facist states before then.
It’s also a pretty good description of the basis of Socialist Europe today.... which evolved from the Monarchies of Europe past. ALL those governments functioned on the principle that thier function was to try to bring about some sort of social “good” for thier citizens (the same sort of thing social conservatives want). It’s a principle which HABITUALY leads to disaster.

Our system works so well precisely because it is based upon the principle that each individual is the best judge of what is “good” for himself and that government exists to preserve that ability to be ones own judge as much as possible... and to act as referee where one individuals ability to do so affects another.

Note that libertarianism only concerns itself with the proper role of government and the excersize of governmental power in relation to the individual. It does not address or constrain, at all, the role of the non-governmental powers of society or social institutions to influence the behavior of individuals. Thus it doesn’t at all advocate the sort of social licentiousness that you seem to imply it does.


305 posted on 08/22/2007 8:56:06 AM PDT by Grumpy_Mel (Humans are resources - Soilent Green is People!)
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To: Grumpy_Mel

#####What you are arguing for IS Stalinism, my friend#####

How do I even respond to that one? I thought I was Taliban.


313 posted on 08/22/2007 9:22:19 AM PDT by puroresu
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