"Ed Huntress" wrote in message news:...

"Rich Grise" wrote in message
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David R. Birch wrote:
On 6/2/2011 6:09 AM, Ed Huntress wrote:

Now, that's libertarianism as an ideology. Conservatism, liberalism,
and
any other ideology you can think of has equally disastrous failings.

You oversimplify. That's libertarian right. Just as there are
authoritarian left and right, so there are also two sides to
libertarianism.

Maybe this can help clear things up on that matter:
http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz

Hope This Helps!
Richard the Dreaded Libertarian

It's interesting, but the subject here is ideology and ideologues, not
leanings. Most of the people I associate with lean one way or the other,
but ideologues use an ersatz kind of deductive reasoning to reach absolute
and extreme positions.

An ideological libertarian, according to the Libertarian Party Platform,
opposes pharmaceutical certification, meat inspection, public education,
monopolies, and free-wheeling securities trading.

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Ed Huntress

Correction: An ideological libertarian would ALLOW monopolies and
free-wheeling securities trading. It's the other things he would oppose.

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Ed Huntress

On 6/3/2011 10:35 AM, Ed Huntress wrote:
"Ed wrote in message news:...

"Rich wrote in message

.......

why is it some people always start a new topic just to respond to an
existing topic?

i don't see this much in other newsgroups, but a few people here do it a
LOT....

On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:23:44 -0500, DougC
wrote:

On 6/3/2011 10:35 AM, Ed Huntress wrote:
"Ed wrote in message news:...

"Rich wrote in message

......

why is it some people always start a new topic just to respond to an
existing topic?

Hmm, so you're complaining that people are taking our many off-topic
threads and sending them further off-topic, or what, Doug?


i don't see this much in other newsgroups, but a few people here do it a
LOT....

Funny, innit?

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