On 01/09/2014 02:34 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > [...] > but most card-carrying Libertarians *would* risk personally assasinating > an innocent person or being party to a lynchmob who did the same... and > *that* is why I can't "hang" with them. Revenge might be sweet, but it > is not Justice and often lowers everyone to the lowest level.
Yep. What I suppose I always misunderstood when I did actively call myself libertarian was which societal mechanisms [sh|c]ould be facilitated by government. I've always agreed government should be precise, accurate, delicate, and sophisticated (read "small" if you don't like those words). But the violent, ham-handed, and cruel "libertarians" seemed to come out of the woodwork sometime during W's administration. Or perhaps I changed and that's just when I noticed them. > I suppose I just talked myself right up my own tailpipe here (as if > *that* never happens) and realized that I'm really not interested in > politics except for the way it tweaks my morbid fascination... > > I'm truly more interested in community and what motivates people, and > what makes life worth living... But isn't that what politics _should_ be? -- ⇒⇐ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
