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- From: mrh@centerline.com (Mike Huben)
- Newsgroups: alt.politics.libertarian
- Subject: Re: Libertarian Social Darwinism
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:03:31 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.035255.13609@genie.slhs.udel.edu> rich@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Rich Schwartzman) writes:
- >I do not share your love it or leave it mentality, nor did I run away. In
- >1968 I raised my hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the United
- >States. I put on those funny looking clothes and spent 16 months in
- >Southeast Asia. It was while I was in the service that I learned the only
- >political morality is in liberty.
- >
- >There were individuals who opposed the war and the draft but stayed in the
- >US risking jail time for their beliefs. I respect them. But I have no
- >respect for those who ran or would have runaway "if the draft had not been
- >discontinued."
-
- It's funny to hear patriotism espoused by a libertarian: oh, you're a big-"L"
- Libertarian, that explains it. I'd like to hear from small-"l" libertarians
- who think they should owe any more to a government than they do to the
- provider of any other service. Least of all a term of slavery in the armed
- forces coercing others in the economic interests of the US.
-
- There is a free market of governments from which to choose from, and ours
- attaches no penalty clause for ceasing to be an American citizen and taking
- up Canadian citizenship (as I would have: my mother was a Canadian citizen.)
-
- I too respect people who objected to the draft and stayed: I just have a
- different agenda of my own. I don't give a fig for your respect if you say
- I should have taken a course that violated my contract with the US government
- when I could easily have done what I chose without violating any laws.
-
- Mike Huben
-
- "One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls
- and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with
- each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will
- be champion." Anatol Rapoport in "Strategy and Conscience" 1964.
-