Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ratex.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!ratex!mck From: mck@ratex.UUCP (Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.philosophy Subject: Relativism and Libertarianism Message-ID: <758@ratex.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 20:34:09 EST Article-I.D.: ratex.758 Posted: Fri Jan 18 20:34:09 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 04:20:19 EST Distribution: net Organization: Terran Mystery Poodles Lines: 13 Xref: watmath net.politics:6959 net.philosophy:1368 This is a re-posting; the original vanished mysteriously. Listen up, vulgar Libertarians: Torek is right-on-the-money when it comes to attempts to derive Libertarianism from ethical Relativism. If there is no absolute good, if right and wrong are purely subjective, then the Libertarian non-aggression principle (which is itself an ethical standard) is BY F***ING DEFINITION a purely subjective precept. Even more disgusted, DKMcK