Reply #129: You absolutely refuse to hear anything that I'm saying [View All]

[Cats Against Frist]

Deregulation is one thing. What Ken Lay did was illegal. Just like the "Brotherhood Newsletter" guy. When people DEFRAUD others of their money, that is considered a crime. In a libertarian society, people have RECOURSE through the courts for things that rob them of their LIFE, LIBERTY or PROPERTY. Particularly in minarchist libertarianism, to which I subscribe.

I guess I just don't throw up my hands, in the face of 280 million boring, apathetic people, and say, "yeah, they're losers, so I think that I'll invest my money and my trust into a system that will violate my basic rights, waste my hard-earned dollars and kill innocent people in my name. You're right -- let's all go back to sleep and let the government handle it. OH, wait, we already did that and the corpo-fascists bought it.

You're making a GIANT strawman out of me, attempting to make me into something that I'm not, so you can re-affirm you own biases, and play oh-so-cute with phraseology. I'm a small-scale collectivist, a liberal, a constitutionalist and a de-centralizationist. None of those things make me "right-wing" in overall philosophy. I've given you several examples of issues on which the right and left either agree, or have switched positions -- which you called "horseshit." I'm not trying to make you believe in libertarianism, I'm simply trying to explain to you that your pre-conceived notions are absolutely false, and that the caricature that you have of libertarians is a VERY narrow one. Of course, you never respond to those points -- only the ones where you can get cheap shots in.

Do you even understand what I'm saying?