re: #47 Obdicut
Grr:
To put it succiently:
Most people calling themselves ‘libertarians’ are as much ‘libertarians’ as sixteen year old kids wearing Che shirts are communists or a random guy with a pair of bongos and body odor is a beatnik.
They’re almost all just minarchists, which isn’t even a philosophy. It’s just the reflexive shouting that government should be smaller. It doesn’t involve actually understanding how the government or society functions.
This is the essence of what I said in my first post about wanting the benefits of the social contracts, but none of the duties.
We really are not disagreeing.
I don’t mean to put down your point. It’s a good point. It is just that neither of us seem to be talking about the small groups where those distinctions you talked about actually apply.