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To: JohnM who wrote (26778)	8/17/2006 11:31:33 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 543205

It seems to me that forcing people to have accounts violates libertarian principles from the get go. If you really wanted to be libertarian then you wouldn't get in to the business of whether people save or not. People would save only if they wanted to, on their own. And of course the poor folks who played the grasshoppers would just starve- unless they could find someone who wanted (without coercion) to give them charity. I don't know if Lind was sloppy. It seems to me that writers often have someone in mind, who they are addressing, and that can confuse readers who don't know that. It seems quite possible to me that Lind might have had someone in mind when he wrote the piece- someone who may have self identified as a libertarian, but who wasn't libertarian as far as other libertarians might be concerned. I find that with conservative writers who write about liberals, and liberal writers who write about conservatives- it often seems they have a very narrow band of the political spectrum in mind (or even just one person), even though they cast their verbal net in generalities. I thought that might have happened with Lind, but I've no way to check that.

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