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To: old-ager
Libertarians make a fundamental mistake about the nature of man. Man is not inherently good.

Typical anti-libertarian strawman argument. Libertarianism does not entail a belief that "man is inherently good". In fact, libertarians require that individuals be held responsible for their own actions -- which is the quickest way to expose bad actors.

6 posted on 06/18/2002 11:53:58 PM PDT by ravinson
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To: ravinson; PatrickHenry; jennyp
Yeah...

there's something really backwards about liberals--libertarians and evolutionists...

they think the state/human nature will evolve and wither away---too idealists to put it nicely!

The big lie...

Originally the word liberal meant social conservatives who advocated growth and progess---mostly technological(knowledge being absolute/unchanging)based on law--reality...the nature of man/govt. does not change. These were the Classical liberals...stable scientific reality/society---industrial progress!

Then came the post-modern age of switch-flip-spin...atheist secular materialists through evolution removed the foundations...made the absolutes relative and calling all technology/science === evolution to substantiate/justify their efforts--claims...social engineering--PC---utopias!

Liberals/Evolution BELIEVE they are the conservatives--guardians too!

Hypnotism--witchraft ideology--politics--religion--BRAINWASHING--superstition--BIAS---EVOLUTION

7 posted on 06/19/2002 1:03:07 AM PDT by f.Christian
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To: ravinson
Libertarianism does not entail a belief that "man is inherently good".

This is not what Farah was saying. He said that libertarians do not understand that man is inherently bad. Which has a lot of truth to it.

18 posted on 06/19/2002 7:24:01 AM PDT by yendu bwam
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To: ravinson
Typical anti-libertarian strawman argument

Why don't you email him about this and post his response? I know him better than I know you, but you dismiss him as though you were very wise ...

22 posted on 06/19/2002 8:30:57 AM PDT by old-ager
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