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To: cosmicforce who wrote (99369)	3/23/2005 9:40:13 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I accidently closed the window that had the preview screen of my response. I hate it when that happens. I'll have to reanswer and hope I don't lose any important points. Minarchists might be what most people think of when they think of libertarians. Supporters of very minimal government. There are also more mild libertarians. The term isn't as vague as conservative or liberal but "libertarian" can refer to people with a lot of different ideas at least when you get down to details. Anarcho capitalists might be considered anarchists with a capitalist streak. They don't represent what you call "the kind of lawlessness system of investment that occurred at the beginning of the 20th century" they are more extreme than anything that existed in a developed country in the 20th century. Without regulation, libertarianism becomes an economic totalitarianism Even minarchists believe in some regulation. Even anarcho-capitalists would support some form of reaction to fraud that doesn't involve conventional government regulation, (don't ask for details because I'm not an anarcho capitalist, or even close to being one). Also a state of minimal regulation is not a facist or a totalitarian situation. If a private company actually enforced totalitarian rule you would have a corporate based totalitarian government not a libertarian system. What is the libertarian motivation to keep the environment clean for future generations or to provide care for orphans? I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Do you mean "how would environmental protection, and orphans, be dealt with in a libertarian system? As for polution, while most libertarians wouldn't be big fans of the current EPA, most would support having regulations to protect the environment, either conventional regulation, or some alternate system. or the kind of unconscionable exploitation that Wal-mart does in Afghanistan and Bangladesh? Can you be more specific? Tim