"...as long as the outcome intends to improve the situation for liberty." In any case, I'm talking about nations, not neighbors.
Do you really "think" the accidental bombing of a wedding is the same as the intentional and repeated attacks on office buildings, restaurants, discos, civilian airplanes, and other places where ordinary people congregate? From: Steve Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 4:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Using force to improve the utilization of resources Re: [Libertarian] Stop the War FOR Terror Bob Giramma wrote: > I tend to favor Ayn Rand's philosophy that free > nations are morally justified in discretionary use of military action > against non-free nations, as long as the outcome intends to improve the > situation for liberty. So if my neighbor is not using his resources in a way that I think best, it's ok for me to use force to take those resources and put them to best use? > There is undoubtedly far greater freedom in > Afghanistan and Iraq today than prior to US military intervention. Just don't have a traditional wedding or funeral if the US is flying overhead. -- Steve - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take World's Smallest Political Quiz at http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html "If a thousand old beliefs were ruined on our march to truth we must still march on." --Stopford Brooke [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
