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Subject: card-carrying libertarians
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Date: Wed, 3-Sep-86 16:21:36 EDT
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I prefer the term dues-paying to card-carrying, since I try to keep my
wallet as empty as I can. :-) I am a libertarian, and a member of the
Libertarian party.  You've seen at least a few things from me in the
list

 I was an objectivist for a time as well, but since that term means
going along with everything that Rand believed, I've shed that label.
(She had a remarkably limited view on women's issues for a women who
believed in liberty.)  I still use her ideas and arguments as a
starting point for my beliefs about the proper role of government.
These days I'm sometimes a minarchist (minimum government--police,
courts, national defense) but more usually an anarchist (no government
can function without coercing individuals.)  I argue the minarchist
line when it's convenient and moral, because it's easier for people to
see how the economy could operate without intervention in a particular
arena than to concieve that it might be possible to operate without
any central government.

I worked at GenRad from 1980 to 1984.  Ask the people who are still
around from back then if they remember me.  (One of the last things I
did there was to help with the conversion of teddy from VMS to UNIX.)
It's too bad you arrived after I left.  I would have enjoyed arguing
with an objectivist.

Chris
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