Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!columbia!topaz!josh From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Survival of Libertaria in competition Message-ID: <857@topaz.ARPA> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 05:22:07 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.857 Posted: Mon Mar 4 05:22:07 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Mar-85 05:28:10 EST References: <1597@bmcg.UUCP> <233@tilt.FUN> <676@unmvax.UUCP> <240@tilt.FUN><1426@dciem.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 28 > > Martin Taylor > In the normal course of social change, Libertaria should have occurred > by chance, if not by design, and probably more than once. According to > the libertarian argument, it should then have thrived and grown quickly > strong, being better than its neighbours on both economic and ethical > grounds. We should now see several Libertarias, if not a world full of > them. But we see none, and no evidence that any ever existed. > "In the normal course of technological change, fusion reactors should have occurred by chance, if not by design, and probably more than once. According to the physicsts' arguments, it should then have thrived and grown quickly strong, being cleaner, more efficient, and economical than competing methods of power generation. We should now see several fusion reactors, if not a world full of them. But we see none, and no evidence that any ever existed." > If an approach to libertarian principles would make a society stronger > than a retreat from them... I think that the whole rise of western civilization can be seen as the slow, unsteady, but hopeful progress toward libertarian principles. I would hold up the US and Switzerland as examples that show the progress--although we've still got probably a millenium or so to go before the slave mentality dies completely out. --JoSH