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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
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Subject: Re: Libertarians considered psychotic
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Date: Mon, 10-Sep-84 23:56:11 EDT
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>> So, in a phrase, I think libertarians are psychotic competition fanatics
>> while anarchists are useful proponents of decentralization in order to
>> make society better adapted to local conditions, and to encourage
>> cooperation between people treated as equals.

>> peter rowley

I almost agree.  I think libertarians are compulsive about logial
systems, viz: the government with the fewest good rules is the best. 
So it's really only a neurosis--a handy one for scientists looking for
order among the chaos--merely inappropriately applied to the human
sphere.

I'll pick an easy example.  Libertarians often speak of "freedom"
as if it were one uncontested good thing, essentially, as Peter
suggests, capitalism unchained.  That is pure economic democracy.
But there's also social democracy--human rights--and it is often at odds
with economic democracy.  Sometimes a free spirit bumps up against the
body of free enterprise.  (Consider modern environmental issues.)  Then
whose freedom is more precious?  No decent (in the moral sense)
political philosophy will have an easy answer.
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