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- From: proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Empty Philosophies
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.003453.3536@informix.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 00:34:53 GMT
- References: <1992Aug4.161109.16998@hellgate.utah.edu> <BsIDwM.CDq@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <51634@dime.cs.umass.edu>
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- In article <51634@dime.cs.umass.edu> yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
- >In article <BsIDwM.CDq@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> jwales@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (jimmy donal wales) writes:
- >>Kenneth Tolman writes:
- >>One might claim, casually, that all political theories are in some
- >>sense shallow. But I will presume that you mean that _relative
- >>to other political theories_, the libertarian viewpoint is shallow.
- >>This will be a difficult claim to justify. Perhaps it is simply
- >>the case that you have never met an able defender of the position,
- >>in which case your opinion is justified. But I'm here now, so we
- >>can get these things straightened out.
- >
- >Ah, now I see that "shallow" is rather too weak to capture to absolute
- >lack of depth in "libertopianism".
- >
-
- Yep, listening to lib'ians telling us that they "don't like paying
- taxes, shouldn't have to pay taxes, not gonna pay taxes" reminds
- me of listening to 5 year olds asserting that all they want to eat
- is ice cream, and they shouldn't have to eat anything else, and
- they won't, so there.
-