Perhaps this is one reason why Ralph Nader is reportedly drawing crowds of 5,000 at rallies. He's active: Bashing Gore, attacking corporations, etc. No philosophical twaddle (oh, it might have its place but not in politics) about landing on someone's balcony and trespass righs. -Declan On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 10:44:18PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
(No time to write a piece on this, but perhaps the whole Libertarian Party effort is foundering precisely because it has picked the "safe and boring" route. Murray Rothbard, for example, has his arcane theory about how people may not even take action when someone is attacking them...until the attack has actually resulted in injury. Many exposed to this kind of thinking, and the "inside baseball" of ultra-boring LP conventions, probably lose interest in Libertarian issues. Part of human nature, driven by evolutionary pressures, seems to be an inclination to act decisively.)