Hi Billy, On Apr 20, 2010, at 1:01 PM, [email protected] wrote: > And, here, not at all incidentally, is where libertarianism breaks down. > There is a false assumption built into libertarian logic, which says that all > choices > are equally good.
Not to disagree with your larger point, but I think the libertarian argument is somewhat different. As I understand it, the Libertarian claim is that: "Not all choices are equally good, but bad personal choices will eventually die out in the market, with a social cost lower than trying to prevent them in the first place." The counter-argument is that some personal bad choices create more social cost than they do individual cost, and thus it is in society's net interest to prevent them. -- Ernie P. _______________________________________________ Centroids mailing list: [email protected] http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com Archives at http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/
