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> > ....  What libertarians want, and
> > what rational people want, are as different as night and day.
> 
> Now really, Paul, what do you believe libertarians want?
> 
> Libertarians, as libertarians, want this and only this:
> 	A world where there is broad agreement that the only proper use
> 	of force is in responding to those who initiate its use.
> 
> If this be night, what then is day?

What I have trouble with is why, out of all the possible "basic goods"
people could want, libertarians seem to have a fixation for freedom
from force.  Whenever a philosophical position claims that one thing
is an absolute good, to be followed to the exclusion of everything
else, I think that this shows there is something fundamentally wrong
with it. What is wrong with saying, "coercion only in a few cases where
the situation justifies it"? Or, "coercion only when the majority
opinion is in favor of it"? 

	Wayne