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Re: Don Quixote puts away his lance (was Re: McDonalds set
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Mon, 27 Sep 1999 21:05:54 GMT
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LPIENIAZEK@NOVERA.avoidspamCOM
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John Neal wrote:
> See above. I'm sure I could get many to agree that the druggist's actions are
> subhuman.
As with all these little morality puzzles, we don't have enough facts to
conclude that. For all we know, Heinz skipped buying health insurance to
cover the drug because he wanted to go bowling, or because he needed the
money to pay his last court fine for wife beating.
> There is something sick and wrong with a system that values property
> more than life. What Libertarianism needs is a moral code. As I have said
> before, it needs Christianity. [1]
>
> -John
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> [1] blatant troll to Lar, but seriously submitted as well.
And Lar rises to the bait.
Libertarianism and Christianity are not incompatible. Libertarianism
makes no statement about religion or internal belief systems. I know a
fair number of Christian Libertarians. (1) I just don't happen to be one
of them.
Libertarianism DOES have a moral code. It's simple, really, and you
already know what the single axiom from which it all derives is.
Mandatory altruism just doesn't happen to be part of it.
1 - It is possible to live your life in a christian manner and yet not
violate the rights of your fellow travelers on this ball of rock. It's
just not possible to be, for example, a good Catholic, because to do so
means to support political actions by the Catholic church that are not
life affirming.
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