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To: RKV

No, I don’t think majoritarian tyranny is ok.

I think the difference to me is that liberty is not the ultimate good, it is the means to the ultimate good, which is goodness it self. But goodness requires a moral choice, and in order to make a choice you need to be free.

I think there are some conservatives who forget that and want to force people to be good, and that is wrong. But what I think a lot of libertarian do is they start worshiping liberty as the ultimate good, and I get the feeling that they don’t really care how the liberty is used as long as people have it. Liberty can only be maintained with responsible use, I think a lot of so-call libertarians want all the benefit and none of the responsibility.


65 posted on 08/21/2007 12:37:29 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: Truthsearcher
Liberty can only be maintained with responsible use, I think a lot of so-call libertarians want all the benefit and none of the responsibility.

Those would be "Liberals", not libertarians. Jefferson/Madison oriented libertarians understand the requisite responsibility involved with liberty.
We just don't want to have to wear diapers when the guy down the street craps his pants.

74 posted on 08/21/2007 12:43:38 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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