[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I went back and reread the Ray Roberts article that was linked in the > email. His better pledge is also ambiguous. Who can use force and who > decides when their life, liberty or property are being attacked? And > yes upon analysis the current pledge is also ambiguous. But such > pledges should be general in nature wrt principles and specific wrt > actions. >
So, what does the Libertarian Party do about the practical problem that it has a membership requirement which is silly -- the LP requires signing something whose meaning is not obvious and the same to everyone -- rewrite it in plainer language, provide an explanation (from the convention or the LNC) of what it actually means? If you do chose the explanation route, do you provide that explanation along with the signature requirement, or spring the actual meaning on them after they've signed? Before makes for a crowded form, after sounds like "bait and switch", only worse. If you're going to include the explanation on the form, it had best be short. If it's short, why not include the explanation as part of the requirement? This whole series of practical questions avoids the one question which no one has been able to answer to my satisfaction -- though they are generally able to answer it to their own, and think that should be enough to satisfy me -- why have this oath or any oath at all? That's a rhetorical question, and has already been asked and answered. At length. We've already gotten a huge collection of incompatible answers, so I'll spare you my latest and perhaps snarkiest. (E-mail me if you simply must know. Garrison Keillor might find it amusing. Or not.) Bottom line: what do you think the LP ought to do about this defective requirement? What do you think the LP will do about it? -Eric -- Eric S. Harris If this address ever fails, try visiting http://www.returnpath.net ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XmUd6C/bOaOAA/cUmLAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
