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- Subject: Re: Objections to the Pledge? (was: NatCom Endorses Facelift...)
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- From: parvin1@husc11.harvard.edu (Douglas Parvin)
- Date: 24 Jan 93 21:12:30 GMT
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- bu008@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brandon D. Ray) writes:
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- >In a previous article, sconley@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M Conley) says:
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- >>Would someone please post some of the objections to the pledge? I didn't
- >>really have a problem with it, and I'm curious as to why anyone would object
- >>(note that I wouldn't have signed the pledge without that key word
- >>"initiation"...is it that there are some versions of the pledge without that?).
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- 6) It goes against the principles of a large number of libertarians who
- support the down-sizing of government because it is by nature wasteful,
- unimaginative, corrupt, etc. These libertarians might not have a beef with a
- theoretical utopian government that didn't exhibit these traits, but believe
- that it is impossible in practice due to human nature, lack of individual
- motivation, etc. Therefore, they pragmatically support a libertarian agenda
- and feel alienated by the categorical universality of the pledge. They do
- not hold to one shining guiding principle.
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- Douglas Parvin
- parvin1@husc.harvard.edu "Homercles cares not for beans"
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