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From: biep@klipper.UUCP (J. A. "Biep" Durieux)
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Subject: What is a libertarian go[u]verment?
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Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 16:23:59 EST
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This is an extended extract of an article I posted some time ago. Since I
didn't get any responses, and since I really would like to know what liber-
tarianism is like, I'm reposting. Please answer in net.politics.theory
*only*. This double posting is only to carry the discussion to there.
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Ok, I feel I just am missing too many facts on Libertarianism to be able to
judge it. Here are some questions:
	- Where does the go[u]vernment in Libertaria (generic name for a
		Libertarian country) come from. Is it elected? If so, what
		about the minority that voted against? If not, how then?
		Where does the power of the go[u]vernment come from?
		From paid policemen/soldiers? If so, where does the money
		come from?
	- Is it the go[u]vernment that decides when something is reasonable
		(my neigbo[u]r is infesting my land with sound waves. I am
		a physicist and for my experiments I need *silence*, and
		my neighbo[u]r keeps whispering all the time)? If so, where
		does it get its authority from? And where does one complain
		if the go[u]vernmental decision seems unjust? If not, who
		does?
	- Do legal persons (non-natural ones) exist in Libertaria? May I
		start a charity company which will survive me? (Something
		like Nobel, for instance, is that allowed?) Must there be
		natural persons to be held responsible in case something
		goes wrong?
	- Is there some sort of "higher court", to rely upon when one thinks
		the (private?) arbitration didn't do justice?

>Ah, but saying "this is my land" isn't sufficient to give you control over
>it in Libertaria. You have to *use* it. 
>	<mike

But what exactly is *using* land? A person who owns a lot of land and has
other people living on it, doesn't he *need* spare land to provide relax
possibilities, and to secure a future for new-born children? Can the physi-
cist of above claim to need lots of land around him "since it has to be
silent here"?
-- 
							  Biep.
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I utterly disagree with  everything  you are saying,  but I 
am prepared to fight to the death for your right to say it.
							--Voltaire