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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jim kelley who wrote (3717)	9/18/1998 9:37:00 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

>I still do not believe you. Your position is inconsistent with Libertarian principles.< Fine sir. Your type is disinterested in truth. You merely want to shout lunacies. So my goal is not to convince you of my positions, but simply to tell you as accurately as I can what they are. Don't press it, sir. I show you a great deal of courtesy in even this. >Being a libertarian I would think that you would disavow any attempt to control the moral code of another person. If you are for personal freedom why would you take a position in favor of moral or religious chains?< Because I am not a libertarian, and never claimed to be one. Merely because I heavily lean toward certain Libertarian political and economic philosophies does not require that I embrace Objectivist religion. >Seems inconsistent.< The inconsistency exists only between the truth, and that muddled assortment of White House propaganda to which you empty-headedly refer as "facts". >Congress and the president both share a common interest in adultery, casual consensual sex and pizza. Why would you want to enforce your moral code on them? Obviously they believe in a different moral code than a lot of people.< Obviously I reject adultery. But my rejection of the President has always stemmed from his flagrant unrepentant breaking of the law. And since he has done this, I refer to the law in the vain attempt to hold him accountable to it. Perhaps since in the name of Libertarian freedom you think it wise to reject the notion of holding those who break the law accountable to the law, this is why many who would otherwise be Libertarians, are not. Fortunately for Libertarianism, not all Libertarians are as Libertine.