>
> That's only the case if one takes the absolutist position that a
libertarian
> must believe in the NAP to be a libertarian. Since I don't believe
that, I
> don't consider all libertarians to be a statist. Their arguments
may be in
> favor of a state, and I might agree that they make good arguments,
but I
> wouldn't suggest that they aren't libertarian for doing so.
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I personally lean further towards the anarchist end of the spectrum
myself, but I will concede that many libertarians are minarchists (at
worst!), but anyone who endorses the "authority" of the state to
encumber the life, liberty and/or property of the individual could
rightly be called a statist.
Actually, I must say that my first week as a member of this forum has
been quite instructive. For instance, I have learned that there
are "libertarians" who separate property into (at least) two
different classes - that property which can be taxed and that which
cannot (or maybe they only define one class of property which can be
classed at the whim of "the people" (as opposed to "the state", I
suppose). And now I learn that there are "libertarians" who do not
believe in the "non-agression pact"; I assume that means that they
believe that some forms of agression are acceptable.
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