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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Comments on Libertarianism
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Date: Thu, 15-Nov-84 00:11:19 EST
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It boils down to this:  libertarians value individual freedom as paramount.
(As, I admit, I do myself.)  Yet they claim that they have no responsibility
to the society that they live in.  Democracy provides for majority rule and
law, and sets up the rules governing how the benefits a society is supposed
to provide get distributed, AND how each person is to be responsible for
contributing (monetarily or otherwise) to the sustenance of society and its
benefits.  Those who choose to claim "I get no benefits from society" are
clearly lying, unless they live in a cave, built their own domiciles with
their hands and make no use of ANY societally provided facility.  (Obviously
anyone using this network doesn't qualify, since they are a priori using
resources belong to other members of the society---even if they own their
own computers, priced as they were by society's marketplace, they are using a
public telephone network.

Why does the libertarian standpoint sound like the rantings of a child who
wants something but doesn't want to have to do what is required (e.g.,
work, interact sociably with other people) to get it?
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						Rich Rosen    pyuxd!rlr