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To: Dayuhan who wrote (57822)10/7/1999 11:18:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 108807
 
I don't see any way that a pure libertarian state could function,

I think the closest thing to documented pure libertarianism that I have been able to read about was the USA at the turn of the century. I'm not completely up on libertarian theory but from what I know... the 1900s USA was pretty close. And plenty of stuff didn't work, for example, everybody paid for their own fire service, so if a massive fire broke out competing private fire agencies had to coordinate with one another... which they were in no way prepared to do, making things much worse. Same with any city service such as garbage collection, it just went unchecked.



To: Dayuhan who wrote (57822)10/8/1999 8:54:00 AM
From: Edwarda  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
Re libertarian thinking, I agree with you strongly, Steven. Although I am not as much of an ideologue as Terry, I am sick to the teeth of what is being done "for the greater good"--a great deal of which I deplore--with my money, earned by my work. I am sick of the layers of government that sneak into my life at all levels without my permission.


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