From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Thu Mar 20 2003 - 21:13:27 MST
Mike Lorrey wrote:
> --- alexboko@umich.edu wrote:
>
>>From: "Alex Future Bokov" <alexboko@umich.edu>
>>>BTW, I tested Centrist with very strong Libertarian leanings.
>>>Actually I would describe myself as a Libertarian that knows
>>>where some of the Libertarian theory breaks down.
>>
>>Ah! A fellow one at last. Which bugs have you found? I've found a few
>>myself, lets share/trade.
>
> War is a area that illustrates that much libertarian theory is only
> useful when you apply it to an entirely libertarian world (i.e. a
> fictional universe, at present). Strict libertarian theory does little
> to allow one to rationally or effectively deal with a semi- to
> non-libertarian world full of many anti-libertarian actors...
I came to many of the same conclusions as Mike and
Alex independently, after pondering the question for
some time. Communism doesn't work well unless the
whole planet is communist. If one capitalist society
exists next to a communist, it prospers like crazy;
the go-getters in the commie society want to escape
to live with the rich capitalists. Examples North
and South Korea, East and West Berlin.
Similarly, it seems to me that a libertarian society
next to a totalitarian society is at a military
disadvantage, altho at a great advantage in every
other sense.
I would suggest a mostly libertarian society that
allows great personal and financial freedom but still
reserves the right to raise taxes for common defense,
and even the right to draft citizens in a dire
emergency.
spike
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