At 14:13 4/20/97 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Jim, For the record: I doubt everyone agrees with your "libertarianism is intertwined with assassination politics" line... I suggest that one can believe in minimal government and other libertarian mainstays without seeing a need to kill off those whom we dislike, be they IRS agents or surly supermarket clerks. -Declan
Sure, they can BELIEVE in those things without seeing the need, etc, but then again they can believe in the tooth fairy and Santa Claus. Their position would be overly optimistic, in my opinion. I think a more realistic way to phrase it is this: "If a society is sufficiently defective so as to contain those flaws (ones which could have been corrected using AP), that society will also contain flaws which make it impossible to be called libertarian." Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com