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Pastimes : The Libertarian Party
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To: Don Green who wrote (51)8/9/2004 7:01:02 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 103
 
Its hard to say what the normal Libertarian thinks and feels. Can you point out a "normal libertarian" and tell me what makes him different from another one who is presumably an "abnormal" or "odd libertarian"?

Your also begging the question that they are outlandish. I don't think anything in my post was. Are not draftees involuntary servants? Sure the terms are temporary, they aren't considered 2nd class citizens, the conditions might not be wretched. In various ways they don't fit the connotations of the world "slave", but they do fit the definition. That's why I said that "technically it is slavery", rather then merely "it is slavery". Technically criminals forced in to heard labor are slaves or "involuntary servants" if you would prefer. That term might be better because both the draftees and the laboring prisoners fit both the connotations and the definitions of that term, while perhaps (esp. in the case of the draftees) fitting only the definition of slavery.

Tim
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