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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
If he's trashing my yard he's going to stop commonwealth or no commonwealth and I don't need to shoot him...there are many ways to deal with a jerk.

Individuals can not dictate to me how I spend my money or live my life. Government does that on a daily basis.
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7 posted on 03/20/2007 11:10:25 AM PDT by mugs99 (Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
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To: mugs99
If he's trashing my yard he's going to stop commonwealth or no commonwealth and I don't need to shoot him...there are many ways to deal with a jerk.

Sure there are. But how many of them don't involve reverting to a "state of nature" where you just end up creating some sort of feud between him and yourself. Or, if you're a true libertarian, there's always the "private arbitration" route - with its absolute lack of guarantees that one or the other party will submit to the decision of the arbitrator.

See, this is why I rejected libertarianism. When it moves beyond being just a bunch of bumper sticker slogans tossed out to sound good, when you actually start thinking through many of the implications of the more radical libertarian arguments, you see that they just don't hold any water.

13 posted on 03/20/2007 12:35:52 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (The anti-libertarian Neo-Ciceronian)
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