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To: TimF who wrote (99351)	3/23/2005 9:15:57 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Since I can't even find "minarchy" as a form of government in any legitimate source (the Libertarian Party site had one reference), I infer from your usage that is a form of libertarianism. When you make up these labels you really obfuscate the issues. The definition you seem to have found is roughly plagiarized from several free on-line sources and eight academic ones: en.wikipedia.org Google only reports 680 I prefer dictionary meanings: lib•er•tar•i•an ( P ) Pronunciation Key (lbr-târ-n) n. 1. One who advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state. 2. One who believes in free will. And God only knows what an anarcho-capitalist would be, but it might represent the kind of lawlessness system of investment that occurred at the beginning of the 20th century, requiring popular outrage as framed in the novels of Upton Sinclair and Sinclair Lewis. TR's Progressive movement was needed to rein it in. Without regulation, libertarianism becomes an economic totalitarianism (like fascism) where few strong people with wealth control the destiny of the many. What is the libertarian motivation to keep the environment clean for future generations or to provide care for orphans? You going to rely on people's good will? Isn't the result of light government intervention exactly the kind of behavior that polluted the West by exposing metal sulfides to surface oxidation or the kind of unconscionable exploitation that Wal-mart does in Afghanistan and Bangladesh?