Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!flink From: flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul Torek) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Exactamoondo! Message-ID: <2148@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 22:11:47 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.2148 Posted: Fri Dec 28 22:11:47 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Dec-84 00:12:49 EST Distribution: net Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 13 From: Richard Carnes, ihnp4!gargoyle!carnes > Libertarians also seem to think that freedom is merely the absence of > coercion. But it seems to me that freedom must include the means or power > to effect one's will. A totally paralyzed person hasn't much freedom, > even though he isn't coerced. A poor man is less free than a rich man > to do what he wants because he lacks means. As "The Fonz" would say: EXACTAMOONDO! Freedom *from* coercion, without freedom *to* do anything, is worthless. What libertarians want, and what rational people want, are as different as night and day. --The insufferable iconoclast, Paul V. Torek, umcp-cs!flink