[email protected], "kiddleddee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "Cory Nott" <corynott@> wrote:
> >
> > 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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