From: steveh@thor.isc-br.com (Steve Hendricks)
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In article <1993Apr17.145045.12449@tijc02.uucp> pjs269@tijc02.uucp (Paul Schmidt) writes:
>steveh@thor.isc-br.com (Steve Hendricks) writes:
>: In article <1993Apr15.013651.11353@tijc02.uucp> pjs269@tijc02.uucp (Paul Schmidt) writes:
>: 
>: It is a failure of libertarianism if the ideology does not provide any
>: reasonable way to restrain such actions other than utopian dreams.  
>
>...Society would collapse if most people were evil most of the time."
>			-- David Bergland
Agreed.
>
>"If people are basically evil, the last thing you'd want is a big
>government staffed by those evil folks exercising control over you."
>			-- David Bergland
Agreed.

>"Freedom seems to have unleashed the  creative energies of the people -- and
>leads to ever higher levels of income and social progress."  --  U.N. report

Agreed.

>: The argument is not between those who want "limited" government and those
>: who want "unlimited" government.  It is between those who believe
>: government regulation in a capitalist economy serves worthwhile ends and
>: those who believe such regulation is neither desirable on empirical 
>: grounds nor justifiable on ideological grounds.
>
>Good summary...  Selling your labor or goods so that you can eat 
>and buy a house is essential so that you can excercise your 
>personal freedoms.
>-- 
>Paul Schmidt: Advocates for Self-Government, Davy Crockett Chapter President

And this demonstrates, I assume, that you're a liberal. :-).
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