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To: robowombat
If free men wished to engage in gladiatorial combat I would have no objection.

You can't possibly mean that. The gladiators fought to the death. Please tell us you aren't really that "libertarian."

55 posted on 05/03/2012 9:31:44 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
About many personal choice issues I am more and more libertarian. Whose life do i have a right to risk other than my own? If I possess my life then it is mine to dispose of as I choose. Few would choose to suit up gladiator gear and go after each other with gladius and shield or trident and net. For those who would let them have at it.

I am far more concerned with the destruction of organic (traditional) culture and the social controls it contained by the endless expansion of the therapeutic state than I am a few men risking injury on the grid iron or the arena for that matter. We have reached the point where government has become the enemy of the institutions (family, community, mediating institutions such as churches) that are along with the middle class necessary for the maintenance of our culture form. The root of this is in a philosophy that sees no foreign state or alien quarrel or no part of society that the state doesn't have an interest to protect and enlarge.

73 posted on 05/03/2012 11:44:32 AM PDT by robowombat
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