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  1. Newsgroups: sci.econ
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!silver.ucs.indiana.edu!jwales
  3. From: jwales@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (jimmy donal wales)
  4. Subject: Re: Hey! Libertarians only got 37,000 votes
  5. Message-ID: <BxEnMs.33v@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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  8. Organization: Indiana University
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  11. Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 16:11:16 GMT
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  14. >|Note well that truth is not a majoritarian issue.  Indeed, the
  15. >|inference 'Many people believe X is false --> X is false' is
  16. >|clearly invalid.  It is the truth (or falsity) of libertarian ideas which 
  17. >|must be debated, not the popularity.
  18. >
  19. >No, since the objection that libertarians have to other ideologies is
  20. >that they may work in theory, but in reality it "leads to" socialism
  21. >and so on. 
  22.  
  23. This is hardly the libertarian objection to other political theories.
  24. Who told you this?
  25.  
  26. --Jimbo
  27.