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To: BlackjackPershing

Then I guess you get out enough, so perhaps you need to get to different places—or improve your observational skills.
I do notice that you’ve changed the parameters of your original claim—
“every single” vs. “by and large”
“Libertarian” vs. “libertarians”
—but the fact remains, if you have met few moral libertarians, then you haven’t had the experience I’ve had.

But maybe that’s partly because I had a good Christian upbringing and believe that authoritarianism is immoral. Nowhere did Jesus advocate running to the Romans to force behavior on others—if someone disagreed, the advice was to shake off the dust and move on, not send in the government.


295 posted on 02/21/2011 5:52:42 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring

Most libertarians (big L or small l) adhere to the atheistic teachings of people like Ayn Rand. So much for a good Christian philosophy based on morals.

No parsing of words, in my view, either through ignorance of the core principles and philosophy or by fully understanding, all libertarians promote a philosophy of anarchism that runs counter to the moral need to have a society of laws, which keeps in check the sinful nature of all mankind.

If you believe that man is basically good, then you’d be a good anarchist/libertarian. Strangely enough, you have to believe man is basically good to be a good socialist.

Man is basically a sinful creature. A society of laws is needed, libertarians don’t agree with that. They favor borderline anarchy.


297 posted on 02/22/2011 10:14:24 AM PST by BlackjackPershing
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