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To: neolib who wrote (7825)	12/21/2005 5:57:15 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 541950

Or alternately, why not do away with collectivism on the negative side, and make all debts and damages one might cause in one’s life be part of one’s estate? Whether you convert the responsibility of an individual's debts to the lenders and the collective as you do with bankruptcy or to his offspring, as you propose, you're still taking the load off him. I find the alternatives equally unattractive. His debts should be his own and no one else's. There's no more basis to penalize his offspring than his lenders. The lenders in most cases bear some of the fault. His grandchildren are innocent. I've searched, but without much luck for a modern expose of Libertarianism which is grounded in reality. There is no libertarian movement, not really. Libertarians are mostly just quietly so, making their own individual decisions--to the extent that the collective lets them, that is. Walking the walk, so to speak. The other problem is that, were a movement, it would be primarily a negative movement. It would be to stop doing this or that as opposed to start doing something else. The absence of something is hard to communicate, hard to sell.

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