Bob, Not at all. A reverse phrasing is not the same as a False Dichotomy. Your use of "no" and "only" makes it nothing but an absolute exaggeration intended to distort my argument. The correct way to turn it around would be: "There would be far fewer people committing crimes if there was no bad government."
Your last question is irrelevant. -------------------------- Turning that argument around, are you claiming there are no bad people? People only commit crimes because of bad government? Further, do you believe in good and evil? From: ma ni Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 5:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Libertarian] Re: George Carlin: "We Like War" If you minimize drug-war crime as "environmental determinism", why are you a libertarian? Why do you care about individual rights? Why do you care if we have freedom? Why do you care if an Islamo-fascist forces you to wear a rag and your wife to wear a berka? Why do you care if we aren't allowed to eat the food we like or take the establishment drugs we habitually consume? Why do you care if the ignorant majority pushes you around a little bit? Why do you care if people steal your stuff? Why do you care if a mob threatens or tortures or kills your family? WHY DO YOU CARE ABOUT TERRORISM? None of that really FORCES you to react violently. Anyone who does react violently is simply a born criminal and will always be a criminal and will go from one criminal enterprise to another when it dries up. To blame crime on bad law is simply to misunderstand "those people" we like to call "lowlife scum". Why do you really care about bad laws in our political "environment"? They don't really "determine" your actions - do they?
