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To: Sherman Logan
Free market anarchists such as Rand never seem to realize how utterly dependent their preferred system of human interaction is on the controlled violence of the State.

You clearly don't understand Ayn Rand. I'd suggest reading this before you attempt to enlighten us further.

Here's what she wrote about contracts back in 1963:

In a free society, men are not forced to deal with one another. They do so only by voluntary agreement and, when a time element is involved, by contract. If a contract is broken by the arbitrary decision of one man, it may cause a disastrous financial injury to the other—and the victim would have no recourse except to seize the offender’s property as compensation. But here again, the use of force cannot be left to the decision of private individuals. And this leads to one of the most important and most complex functions of the government: to the function of an arbiter who settles disputes among men according to objective laws.

Criminals are a small minority in any semicivilized society. But the protection and enforcement of contracts through courts of civil law is the most crucial need of a peaceful society; without such protection, no civilization could be developed or maintained.


86 posted on 09/01/2013 8:37:58 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick

Please see post 82.


87 posted on 09/01/2013 8:39:31 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Mark Steyn: "In the Middle East, the enemy of our enemy is also our enemy.")
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To: Yardstick

You sound like a college freshman explaining the purity of Communism and why it will work.

Americans vote for their government and social programs.

Libertarian deconstruction of American Christian culture and law and the public space does not breed conservative voters, or the “libertarian voters” of your imagined utopia, instead it breeds liberal voters who want more acceptance of the social breakdown, and more government to spread the wealth.

LIBERTARIANISM CREATES MORE LIBERALISM, IT IS ABOUT VOTERS AND VOTING, NOT CLASSROOM THEORIES.


91 posted on 09/01/2013 8:56:23 AM PDT by ansel12
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