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To: Lane3 who wrote (6056)	1/13/2017 6:42:56 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 361743

Selling yourself in to slavery is a bit different. Its a little hard to change your mind later. You have a choice once. People can change their religion or their religious ideas and attitudes any time they feel like it. I wouldn't really define what you call situational libertarianism as part of libertarianism (although its very compatible with libertarianism, and people who have that type of attitude are more likely to be libertarian). Well that might be stating it a bit too strong. The boundaries are not solid, there fuzzy. You give good examples of "control freaks in their environment", and "rulers" of "the roost at home" at home in ways that imply at least borderline force or coercion. But choosing a religious belief for yourself isn't coercing someone else even in a borderline way. It may inspire coercion, but it also might inspire the opposite, and the choice or opinion itself isn't coercive. Its a choice for yourself unlike imposing control over others the way even being a control freak or authoritarian parent can be (let alone imposing control over society through government or other means of force).