Tom, I concur, but would hasten to add that a 'physical aggression truce' (aka: NAP, ZAP and so on) has been around since BEFORE human beings; extant in virtually any social critter whose speicies benefits from co-operative behavior.
Iow, the core principle of today's libertarianism is older than people. -Terry Liberty Parker Please see what I wrote in- What's at the Heart of What Libertarians are Selling? at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/message/30419 --- In [email protected], "Thomas L. Knapp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quoth Paul Ireland: > > > Since the beginning, libertarianism has ALWAYS been about > > non-aggression and military non-interventionism. > > Actually, libertarianism originally referred to the advocacy of the > religious doctrine of free will versus the religious doctrine of > predestination. > > Then it referred to communist anarchism (and still does in many places). > > "Non-aggression principle libertarianism" is a relatively new > development that began coalescing about 50 years ago. > > Tom Knapp > ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
