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Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
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Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:02:36 GMT
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Richard Franks wrote:
Libertarian Political Philosophy (LPP?) would be to respect the rights of other
countries to make mistakes, but would it allow them to violate the rights of
other countries.. found something.. <http://www.lp.org/platform/hr.html>
"The violation of rights and liberty by other governments can never justify
foreign intervention by the United States government [...] Only private
individuals and organizations have any place speaking out on this issue."

One point here: This says that the _United States_ government has no
moral authority to intervene. It doesn't say "no government may
intervene". It even mentions why: because no existing government has a
clean record.

So unless you had a private, charity funded, army I guess I shouldn't worry -
phew!

Like there aren't private armies now? They just happen to for the most
part be on the side of the "bad guys" (drug lords and the like).

--
Frank Filz

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  Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
 
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... (...) One point of note: none of the societies with large numbers of street children are anywhere near Libertarian, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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