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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Definitions: Right vs. Conservative
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Date: Sat, 11-May-85 22:57:49 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 11 22:57:49 1985
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> >/* cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) /  3:49 pm  May  3, 1985 */
> 
> > . . . Many also are
> >irritated with the tendency of some libertarians to support both
> >*social* equality, as well as *legal* equality to (take your pick)
> >homosexuals, drug dealers, atheists.
> 
> What do you mean by social equality as opposed to legal equality?
> 
> 						Mike Sykora

In societies where individuals have freedom of action seperate from the
actions of the government (there are a few left), individuals can express
their repulsion the actions of another by refusing to participate in
social interchange.  Thus, if you disapprove of American corporations
investing in South Africa, you boycott their products, and picket their
facilities.  If you are really clever, you buy stock in the company and
put your feelings up to a vote of the stockholders at the next annual
meeting (as has been done, off and on for years to GM).  If you disapprove 
of tobacco or firearms, you express that disapproval by limiting your 
contact with people involved with those things.

I would *never* associate myself in any social setting with a drug dealer,
but I certainly don't think it should be subject to legal sanctions,
other than civil responsibility for the purity and labelling of his
product.