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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Listen here, Paul V. Torek!!!
Message-ID: <681@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 12:03:49 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 27 12:03:49 1985
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In article <10204@ucbvax.ARPA> fagin@ucbvax.UUCP (Barry Steven Fagin) writes:
>(Insert (:-) wherever necessary)
>
>However, as a committed wimp, (excuse me, centrist), you get to 
>survey the intellectual frontier, picking and choosing the ideas you
>like.  So let me put this to you: which of the following doctrines,
>in your opinion, should we draw the most of our ideas from if we're
>going to solve as many problems of the world as possible?
>
>	1) conservativism 
>	2) liberalism
>	3) libertarianism
>	4) populism
>	5) other (*NOT* centrism, please.  Centrism has no ideas of
>		 its own)
>
>	I'm looking for a real opinion here: no wimping out by saying
>that they all contribute equally.
>
	And why not say they should all contribute? The only extreme
opinion I hold is my extreme suspicion of all extreme positions:-) My
impression is that extremists tend to be unable to see the forest for
the trees, they are often only able to see their side of things. So I
go for a moderate position of trying to take the best from everyone.
In fact I am closer to being a Libetarian than you might think. But I
feel that human cussedness, irrationality, and short-sightedness make
it an impractical basis for a complete social order. Thus I see
coercion as being right and proper in certain situations.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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