From: cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D. Tavares)
Subject: Re: Limiting Govt (was Re: Employment (was Re: Why not concentrate...)
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In article <C5uqsM.3I9@encore.com>, rcollins@ns.encore.com (Roger Collins) writes:

> Let me explain some possible "means" to libertarian-style government
> one last time.

> If the dominate philosophy of a society held that it was OK to kill your
> neighbor for sport, no government system (except a strong tyranny by the
> minority) could keep the people from killing each other.

> The dominate philosophy in our society holds that it is OK for people to
> steal and coerce each other as long as it's done by vote or through the
> government machine.  Libertarians realize what this legal stealing and
> coercion does to a society.

> So just as a society of non-murderers would not vote for the "right" to
> murder, a society of non-coercers would not vote for the ability to
> coerce.

> If libertarianism became the dominate philosophy, the people would do a
> good job of restraining government (to the extent that libertarianism
> was dominate).

> So means #1 is educating the people to become libertarian.

Well, that's the obvious conclusion, given your train of logic.  The
corollary then is that it must be a waste of time for the party to run
candidates until the educational program has shown some results.

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