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To: LPS5 who wrote (5439)	4/21/2003 12:39:42 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

I find myself confused by what appear to me conflicting positions you seem to have taken here. In your last post you wrote: " most people, most of all myself, believe that [my opinions are] just another perspective, not worth much more or less than anyone else's" But in your original post, you wrote "To me, those issues aren't negotiable.... I hold that calling yourself a libertarian is a stretch if you're anti-choice or pro-death penalty" That sounds to me less like something you simply view as another perspective, and more to me what I would consider a litmus test of calling oneself a libertarian. To say that a libertarian isn't properly a libertarian if they are anti-choice, or pro-life, depending on which perspective you use, is saying that no one can be a proper libertarian who holds the theological or ethical or philosophical position that a human being temporarily existing in the form of a fetus is as much entitled to life as a human being in any other form. That seems to me to be more than just endorsing another perspective.