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To: wideawake
Most FR libertarians are either Randians or "Modal" War-on-Drugs libertarians (as Murray Rothbard called them). I once had a debate on the virtues of polygamy with a libertarian here...he even had it figured out as to what kind of contract would be involved...
14 posted on 01/10/2003 9:53:57 AM PST by HumanaeVitae
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To: HumanaeVitae
Most modal libertarians don't seem to realize that the privatization of governmental functions will involve an enormous amount of personal responsibility.

In a world where your behavior affects your insurance premiums, everything you do would have an implicit cost/benefit analysis. Sitting around and snorting coke would no longer be a juvenile game of either being caught or not being caught. It eventually would become a matter of deciding whether to live permanently as an unemployable and uninsurable outcast or prosperously in polite society.

A truly free society would be a very unforgiving place for freaks, idlers, druggies and perverts.

18 posted on 01/10/2003 11:05:33 AM PST by wideawake
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