Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site bunker.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!ittvax!bunker!garys From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Libertarianism & freedom Message-ID: <669@bunker.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 10:44:07 EST Article-I.D.: bunker.669 Posted: Wed Jan 16 10:44:07 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 02:13:34 EST References: <2687@ihldt.UUCP> Organization: Bunker Ramo, Trumbull Ct Lines: 20 > >> There are about as many views of "right" and "wrong" as there are > >> people in the world. None of these can be shown to be better, in > >> any objective way, than any other. > >> > >> Given that this is true, libertarians then reason that it is wrong for > >> one person, or a group of persons with similar views, to force their > >> (rather arbitrary) set of values on other people. Is the above view of right and wrong (that it is wrong to force a set of values on another person) better than other views (that sometimes it is right to force a person to accept some other values) ? Can this superiority be shown by any objective means? Then the above premise is contradicted. Libertarians seem to be saying, "There is no way to know what's right and what's wrong, and I know that it is wrong to say that there is." Gary Samuelson ittvax!bunker!garys