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  2. From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.econ
  4. Subject: Re: Outgrowing Libertarianism...
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug31.141345.3824@desire.wright.edu>
  6. Date: 31 Aug 92 19:13:45 GMT
  7. References: <52260@dime.cs.umass.edu> <23020@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> <BtJoqq.362@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <52630@dime.cs.umass.edu>
  8. Followup-To: talk.politics.misc
  9. Organization: Demonic Possesions, Inc.
  10. Lines: 38
  11.  
  12. In article <52630@dime.cs.umass.edu>, yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
  13. > In article <BtJoqq.362@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> jwales@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (jimmy donal wales) writes:
  14. >>Victor Yodaiken writes (speaking of Thomas Jefferson):
  15. >>
  16. >>>He would have had nothing but contempt for the  crabbed and mean-spirited
  17. >>>money worship that is now called "libertarianism".
  18. >>
  19. >>Now, it is indeed true that the libertarian bent of Jefferson's
  20. >>thought is often popularly overstated.  This I do not wish to contest.
  21. > 
  22. > Wise of you.
  23. > 
  24. >>The claim here is that:
  25. >>
  26. >>1. Libertarians are cold-hearted.
  27. >>2.  Therefore, libertarianism is a false theory.
  28. >>
  29. >>Well, not only does the conclusion not follow from the premise... the
  30. >>premise is false!
  31. > 
  32. > Incorrect. The claim is that "libertarianism is crabbed and mean-sprited".
  33.  
  34.     For which there is no proof.
  35.  
  36. > Nothing is claimed about whether or not individual "libertarians" are
  37. > "cold-hearted". And there is no claim that the mean-spiritedness and 
  38. > intellectual poverty of "libertarianism" implies in any way that it is
  39. > a "false" theory, merely that it is a repugnant one.
  40.  
  41.     Very Chomsky-esque of you.
  42.  
  43.     Followups to talk.politics.misc
  44.  
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