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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes(heavily snipped):
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> > Stripping away all the commentator's gafla...
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> **snip**
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> > Stripping away all Scott's gafla...
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> Sorry, Lar, but I think you've broken the duly established "gafla" limit
> for a single post. 8^)
What is Gafla anyway... it is not in my dictionary.
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> > > What matters to us is that libertarian ideas (small l) are catching on. We
> > > don't have to win elections to achieve that.
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> Would that be sufficient for the LP? To have a significant influence on
> the course of government even if the LP doesn't itself field any players?
> In that case, I'd have to agree with you, in that personal responsibility
> and bureaucratic downsizing of the kind espoused by libertarians (small l)
> would by definition benefit society.
> Having said that, and taking at face value the citation by www.m-w.com,
> which identifies 1789 as the year "libertarian" was coined, I wonder if
> libertarian (again, small l) ideas have been "catching on" for 2+ centuries,
> while Libertarianism (big L) is in a way simply a crystalization of those >ideas.
Which came 1st, the egg or the chicken? One way to view Libertarianism, is
that it is a good idea taken to its illogical extreme. Saying the world is
moving towards libertainaism is, in my view, like saying a stone I through
at the moon may reach it.
The "illogical extreme" argument is why I asked the yes/no questions
yesterday. However, I think libertarianism is moving towards trying to
answering these:
Read Chapter 41 David D. Friedman's "The Machinery of Freedom: A Guide to
Radical Capitalism"
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/Libertarian/Machinery_of_Freedom/MofF_Contents.html
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> > I confess that... I thought you were talking about a Mexican dish.
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> "Waiter, I'd like the libertarian Chilli, please, hold the socialism."
Yep, and guess what I had for dinner last night... a whole country. :-)
Scott A
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> Dave!
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| The usual massive and capricious snippage. (...) I'm not sure I'd agree that the degree of change (since the enlightenment, or more specifically, in the last 20 years) is that small. Certainly it's not as large as I'd wish it but it's a lot more (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes(heavily snipped): (...) **snip** (...) Sorry, Lar, but I think you've broken the duly established "gafla" limit for a single post. 8^) (...) Would that be sufficient for the LP? To have a (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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