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From: adam@npois.UUCP (Adam V. Reed)
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Subject: "Perverse" libertarian notion of liberty.
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 15:17:17 EST
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>> As long as you're on the subject, perhaps you can answer a question
>> for a fellow Libertarian.  Does the ERA contain provisions requiring
>> private sector employers not to discriminate against women or other
>> anti-liberty clauses?
>> 
>> 						Thanks in advance,
>> 						Mike Sykora

>What a perverse notion of liberty: the freedom to discriminate against
>women.  With these sorts of ideas, no wonder Libertarians are such a
>small minority party.
>
>Mike Kelly

Actually, a libertarian's notion of Liberty is even more "perverse" than
that: it includes a junkie's right to mainline heroin, and a masochist's
right to get beaten to bloody shit by a consenting sadist. It would be
difficult to locate a tyrant who denies his subjects the freedom to do
things he approves of. You don't qualify as a defender of freedom until
you stand up for the right of all people, not just to actions you can
empathize with, but even to actions you hate, as long they do not
infringe the equal freedom of others.
					Adam Reed