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<blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 784284" data-attributes="member: 22662"><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/happy2.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":happy2:" title="Happy2 :happy2:" data-shortname=":happy2:" />You take my POV wrong. It is that the practice of libertarian principles as public policy seems to me to require a pristine adherence to a set ideals that democracy finds particularly abhorent. Your assertion (that I do not challenge) that this is not a new philosophy intrigues me even further. For all it's attraction, one would think it would easily take off and spread. But it does not. And it does not I believe for two reasons. 1) People's desire for liberty is relative in time to their percieved ease within that concept. That is that if the lower government taxation and involvement is percieved to increase profit and the individual's sense of well being, he will obviously favor such a system. However, if the inverse is true, if for instance one's Social Security or Medicare, or even physical security is percieced to be threatened, one would naturally be adversarial to such suggestions. 2) People are too quick to defend their own liberties and too easily swayed to infringe upon those of others. It seems to me to be rooted in a longing for the Golden Rooted to be manifest in reality. If we could "treat others as we would be treated" things would be grand. </p><p> </p><p>Personally, I subscribe to a philosophy (I do not recall it's origins) that insists that "Whatever is, is right." In every time and place things are as they should be until there is an occurrance which acts to change it. So in all seriousness, slavery and the Civil War and the subsequent Emancipation Proclamation which ended it were equally right for their respective times and situations.</p><p> </p><p>And no, WK. Not insulted in the least with the "cotton comment". Not shocked either.<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/happy2.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":happy2:" title="Happy2 :happy2:" data-shortname=":happy2:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bbsam, post: 784284, member: 22662"] :happy2:You take my POV wrong. It is that the practice of libertarian principles as public policy seems to me to require a pristine adherence to a set ideals that democracy finds particularly abhorent. Your assertion (that I do not challenge) that this is not a new philosophy intrigues me even further. For all it's attraction, one would think it would easily take off and spread. But it does not. And it does not I believe for two reasons. 1) People's desire for liberty is relative in time to their percieved ease within that concept. That is that if the lower government taxation and involvement is percieved to increase profit and the individual's sense of well being, he will obviously favor such a system. However, if the inverse is true, if for instance one's Social Security or Medicare, or even physical security is percieced to be threatened, one would naturally be adversarial to such suggestions. 2) People are too quick to defend their own liberties and too easily swayed to infringe upon those of others. It seems to me to be rooted in a longing for the Golden Rooted to be manifest in reality. If we could "treat others as we would be treated" things would be grand. Personally, I subscribe to a philosophy (I do not recall it's origins) that insists that "Whatever is, is right." In every time and place things are as they should be until there is an occurrance which acts to change it. So in all seriousness, slavery and the Civil War and the subsequent Emancipation Proclamation which ended it were equally right for their respective times and situations. And no, WK. Not insulted in the least with the "cotton comment". Not shocked either.:happy2: [/QUOTE]
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