"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Reply to Block on Libertarianism is Unique
"Walter Block very badly misrepresents my views in his article "Libertarianism is Unique and Belongs Neither to the Right Nor the Left: A Critique of the Views of Long, Holcombe, and Baden on the Left, Hoppe, Feser, and Paul on the Right” (pp. 127–70 of this issue), and in some cases his characterization of them even seems to me to be defamatory. Let me try to set the record straight. First some background."
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To repeat previous comments, I see this as a non-debate debate. Arguments over this, that or some other type of "libertarianism" are senseless at best, detrimental to those of us wishing to be free on down the scale. They smack of an indwelling and perhaps highly intellectual compulsion to direct and control my liberty, as well as the liberties of everyone else (in the "free society" that they'd like to be the ones to bring about).
And to that extent I'll agree with White Indian. My agreement is conditioned by the mutual understanding (I think) that there is no problem with individual liberty or bein' free. That is a good thing. That's the goal of all of us here. The problem is with the "ism" and the "ian" of libertarianism.
Be free.
Sam
Amen to that Sam. TL:dr.
A comment and sentiment I can get behind no matter who says it.
Well said Sam.
isms and ians are the true enemy.
Forming and controlling the debate on freedom without the consent of those attempting to be free is in itself a form of aggression.