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This is a fine bit of satire, although based on the titled I'd hoped for something more straightforward. I'm the father of two boys, and while I strive to instill the non-aggression principle and respect for property boundaries in them, they are still exposed to a fair amount of nonsensical ideas...
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http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=2_eA1NWiwMQ great debate! conservatism vs libertarianism (go doug!) Dinesh D'Souza vs Hitchens christianity is good vs bad http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ueSJHRU7B9o&feature=related
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Far-Right Wing Fascist/Nationalist/Populist in the likes of Franco, Hitler, Mussolini, etc... Despised Left-Wing Wilsonian Neoconservatism and Modern Day Progressive Leftism... Liked Ralph Nader, Patrick Buchanan, Ron Paul, Hugo Chavez, etc... And yes I understood that Chavez was a huge time Leftist...
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I created a wiki where people can basically design their own ideal "government." I posted Fred Foldvary's "A Geo-Libertarian Constitution and Bill of Rights" there with his permission, and then I made some changes and comments (I don't agree with his philosophy, but it was...
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In another thread, I took the side that you cannot get an ought from an is. I think I may have been mistaken. I actually did a quasi-'first principles' thought experiment about morality. This is what I came up with: Any objective moral system for humans, what is referred to here as 'universal...
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Libertarian is a rather broad label, at least nowadays. Rand was a minarchist as per her defense of government in "The Nature of Government" (reprinted in The Virtue of Selfishness ). For a criticism of that essay, see Roy Childs' "Objectivism and the State: An Open Letter to Ayn Rand"...
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"...we know that men, by a natural law, always rule where they are stronger. We did not make that law,nor were we the first to act on it; we found it existing, and it will exist for ever, after we are gone; and we know that you and anyone else as strong as we are would do as we do." -History...
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David J. Heinrich: "It seems to me, then, that the criterion, the ground on which we must stand, to be moral and rational in a state-run world, is to: (1) work and agitate as best we can, in behalf of liberty; (2) while working in the matrix of our given world, to refuse to add to its statism; and...
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toth8: http://www.politicalcompass.org This test has been floating about on the Web for a while. Just wondered what your views on it are. I took it a few years back and scored in the libertarian right. I just took it again: Economic Left/Right: 6.13 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.62 That's...
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i didnt say 'using' ( voting... for ron paul for instance) government had to be the only way to spread the benefits of liberty.....i personally feel it is the best route. except for the 1980 election..and i forget who that libertarain who ran for prez's name was....i cant recall this much...