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Old 12-15-2009, 09:10 PM   #79
Urbane Guerrilla
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None of what you claim you've done have you done, Radar. Pretend to have destroyed me all you want if that is what your decaying mind wants to hypnotize itself into believing; I think I'll forego that entertainment.

If his name ought to be edited out that's well enough.

Third party politics often degenerate in this direction -- yelling over who's the purer. I have never thought that pure Libertarianism would actually go anywhere, so I seek some blend of things that would. Radar's perspective is too narrow -- it's isolationist, and there is no point to isolationism. Libertarianism ought to go global in order to benefit those places that need it most. Without exception, these are undemocratic places, primarily run by oligarchies, who will resort immediately to aggression to retain a primacy that likely they should not have. There is essentially no concern about "initiating aggression" therefore. It is also impossibly poor strategy to allow the slavemongers the first blow. What do you do then, sacrifice your initial agents of change in the name of a principle that is too idealistically framed?

Yeah, right, like that would promote or promulgate libertarianism. We humans can be a pretty damned beastly lot, and none of us want to be lambs to the slaughter. Radar is certainly in no hurry to offer himself.

Nor am I. Slay the goons working for the slavemakers instead, disrupt and slay the slavemakers too, and do it too efficiently for them to catch up. There's also the rest of it, as libertarianism doesn't take hold until enough people there want it. This "don't initiate aggression" principle is one designed to keep libertarianism a parlor game, not a political movement; a debating society, not a responsible administration. It is sabotage.
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