From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 12:28:52 MDT
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:27:12AM -0700, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>
> There is a lot of people with reasonably honest motives, who are mired in
> short-sighted, self-defeating patterns of behavior, like group-oriented
> thinking, zero-sum games, futile attempts at achieving total control by
> means of laws and regulations, unchecked redistribution (aided by a hefty
> dose of greed) - and simply can't crawl out of their little boxes.
Many of these misthinks also form coherent wholes, with reinforcing
parts. So even when they doubt one part they find that the other parts
or their friends views force them to agree to it anyway.
> In your experience, how many Swedes are able and willing to follow a
> libertarian line of reasoning, without exclaiming "Egoist!" halfway through
> the introduction?
My estimate is around 10%. Most simply find the libertarian view so
alien that it cannot be taken seriously.
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