OFF: Bill of Rights sent to Whitehouse
M Holmes
fofp at CASTLE.ED.AC.UK
Thu Feb 29 08:37:35 EST 1996
Dave Berry writes:
> > They may
> > deny this in various ways, but the fact remains that they earnestly wish
> > people thought like them (fit into their reality tunnel) and, like all
> > people, work towards enforcing their reality tunnel on their environment;
> > they are as bad as those they decry, in essence.
>
> In Libertaria, you can believe what you like. As long as it's
> liberatarianism :-)
>
> Actually, what annoys me about the American Liberatarian movement is that
> they wrap up nutty right-wing laissez-faire economics with perfectly good
> libertarian ideas. Even worse, this interpretation of the word is
> gaining ground in the UK.
Hardly surprising since laissez-faire economics *is* libertarian. If the
market isn't free then there's coercion in there somewhere. Coercion is
anti-libertarian by definition.
> Dave.
FoFP
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