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To: LPS5 who wrote (5823)	3/10/2003 2:53:44 PM
From: Poet	Respond to of 6089

Pssst. Please note the header here.

To: LPS5 who wrote (5823)	3/11/2003 5:06:29 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

I'll bite... how about because action on Iraq is the collective enforcement of one set of wills (the US's) against another's (Iraq's). It's a usurpation of sovereignty, given that Iraq has not actually attacked the US in any way, and thus anathema to any blooded libertarian who feels that each party should be freeto act as they wish without interference so long as their actions do not restrict the similar freedoms of others. Death penalty can be seen as a sanction to those who would most grossly and criminally infringe against others, or as the ultimate restriction by an 'authorised' body against an individual; so debatable. Abortion is blatantly a matter for each individual woman to choose (surely no libertarian could allow anyone but the host the right to decide what grows, or doesn't, in his or her body) but I presume there's some debate here due to superstitious or primitivist influences? No libertarian, me, just find some of the doctrines appealing if unrealistic - as indeed with anarchism.