Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ccice2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccice5!ccice2!cjk From: cjk@ccice2.UUCP (Chris Kreilick) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: CONSISTENCY? Still waiting... Message-ID: <541@ccice2.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 20:00:38 EST Article-I.D.: ccice2.541 Posted: Tue Jan 8 20:00:38 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 01:24:26 EST References: <2167@umcp-cs.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: CCI Central Engineering, Rochester, NY Lines: 23 > [Walter Wego was right] > > From: mwm@ea.UUCP (>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. > > The following phrases in you reply are crucial: > 1. "does not have [sic--you mean claim] the right to initiate force" > 2. "have a monopoly on force, and on being able to decide when it > will be used" > > 1 contradicts 2. QED. Paul. Are your shoes too tight? Answer soon. -- fool slapper