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From: flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul Torek)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Exactamoondo!
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Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 22:11:47 EST
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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