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To: LPS5 who wrote (5434)	4/21/2003 11:49:50 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

You're a day late and a dollar short, kid As to being a day late, well, not all of us are free to exercise our libertarian opportunities to post whenever we want to. The powers that be, aka spouses, sometimes demand their share of time we could otherwise spend chatting here. As to being a dollar short, in this market, I only wish it WERE only a dollar. Sigh. As to being a kid, no, my parents weren't goats. My opinion is that the Iraq issue is more negotiable from a Libertarian perspective than the death penalty or abortion. Which means, I suppose, that you have decreed that faithful Catholic can't be a libertarian. You leave yourself in a mighty small corner of the movement, IMO.

To: LPS5 who wrote (5434)	4/21/2003 11:57:27 AM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 13056

There are areas in which well meaning and knowledgeable libertarians disagree You left out what is, IMO, one of the most central areas of disagreement: those whose vision for libertarianism is limited to political and personal philosophy, and those whose vision for libertarianism is political influence in the present day governance. To the latter, the former are irrelevant intellectual navel-gazers. To the former, the latter are inevitably compromisers of the true faith. To me, that is the most uncrossable divide we have.