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Anti-Health Care GOP Freshman Demands Immediate Government Health Care

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Mad Prophet Ludwig11/16/2010 10:16:05 am PST

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.