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From: Cory Nott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, April 29, 2006 11:26 am
Subject: RE: [Libertarian] Re: Purity
> The problem Paul has is that he tends toward absolutism in his
> argument.According to him, anyone who doesn't believe in the NAP
> is not a
> libertarian; Paul believes in the NAP so he is libertarian;
> therefore Paul
> would never argue in favor of something that isn't libertarian. So
> far he's
> proven that he will engage in some spurious attacks just to prove
> that he is
> right, because if he is wrong he in not, by his own definition, a
> libertarian. Most of us are smart enough to realize that we don't
> have all
> the answers, that we are libertarian but sometimes fall into the
> statisttrap and that's why we have debates and discussions - to
> learn more about
> liberty. Paul is arguing from a statist position, but I don't
> think he will
> ever admit to it.
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> Boyd, nice argument against the substance of Paul's argument. But
> that leaves the hysterical portion of his argument - the one that all
> statists fall back on when they find themselves in a contradictory
> mass of tangled logic. "The Constitution says government can levy
> tariffs so love it or leave it." This is the second argument we have
> been having with Paul. Nothing logical about it, but it's a
> particular version of the fall back position for all (United State of
> Americans, at least) who can't otherwise defend their assault of
> liberty.
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