Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!mwm From: mwm@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: a CONSISTENT libertarian speaks out Message-ID: <22400068@ea.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 04:26:00 EST Article-I.D.: ea.22400068 Posted: Fri Dec 14 04:26:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 17-Dec-84 04:08:23 EST References: <572@wucs.UUCP> Lines: 27 Nf-ID: #R:wucs:-57200:ea:22400068:000:1093 Nf-From: ea!mwm Dec 14 03:26:00 1984 /***** ea:net.politics / wucs!esk / 3:01 am Dec 12, 1984 */ [] From: stewart@ihldt.UUCP (R. J. Stewart) > Remember, LIBERTARIANISM IS NOT ANARCHY. Remeber, TRUE LIBERTARIANISM *IS* ANARCHISM, as I proved before. The definition of government is that it claims a monopoly on the right to decide who may use force when. No organization has a right to do this; there must be free competition between protective agencies/associations. CONSISTENCY, ANYONE??? Last call for consistency! wALTER wEGO c/o ihnp4!wucs!wucec1!pvt1047 Please send any mail directly to this address, not the sender's. Thanks. /* ---------- */ No, libertarianism is not anarchy. What differentiates a libertarian government from an anarchy, and indeed from any statist government, is that a libertarian government does *not* have the right to initiate force. It may have a monopoly on force, and on being able to decide when it will be used, but it may only use force in response to force. As for consistency, you can't get that from a system that tries to be fair while dealing with people :-).