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Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
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Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:29:34 GMT
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I've been out of it for a little while (I've been home sick, and the
threading got too complex for me), but here I am back again...
Richard Franks wrote:
>
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John DiRienzo writes:
> > if there was
> > a four year old kid on your street with no one, no where to go, that if
> > there weren't some government agency for you to call and make the problem
> > disappear, you wouldn't do something about it yourself? You would, 99.9% of
> > people would. So even if it wasn't the child's fault, the child would
> > survive. As said earlier, get real.... if you are going to talk to me.
>
> Okay, lets get very real.
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> <http://pangaea.org/street_children/kids.htm>
> <http://www.unisa.ac.za/dept/press/lar/111/lar3.html>
> <http://www.ddc.com/kidsacks/>
> <http://www.letthechildrenlive.org/>
> <http://www.concentric.net/~Vitnet/MinM.htm>
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> There are, according to the UN, around 150 million children on the streets at
> present. Or is this reality not the one you like to face, instead embracing the
> puesdo-reality of a system that is still at this moment hypothetical.
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> Life-affirming or not, that many street-children suggests that we can't rely on
> the innate goodness of man. Which reality is more comfortable to inhabit?
One point of note: none of the societies with large numbers of street
children are anywhere near Libertarian, at least not the third world
societies which you always see the pictures and articles about (well ok,
I'm not sure how I'd classify the various former USSR countries, but
those aren't Liberatopias either).
One thought though, I wonder how much better off some of these countries
would be if we didn't have halfway interventions? I think there is a
point where one needs to intervene in other countries buisiness (but I'm
not quite sure how to square that with Liberatarian ideals, but it does
seem that if someone else is suffering from a non-Liberatarian
government, then some kind of intervention is moral), but when one does,
one should go the whole mile. Look at where Germany and Japan are today.
Look at where the countries we've waged war against since are.
--
Frank Filz
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