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Originally Posted by Willravel
To me that reads as a more centrist position as far as the individualism/collectivism scale goes. You believe in individual responsibility to a point, but you're not willing to sacrifice a great deal for that belief; the belief is seasoned with pragmatism. I think this kind of thinking represents a great deal more libertarians than the all or nothing kind of dogmatic libertarianism provided by Senator Ron Paul.
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i don't want to hijack your thread, you got me wondering...
do you think it takes an "all or nothing" attitude to make things work? is compromise the reason any one political ideal doesn't work, because it compromises itself and weakens it's strengths? cater to too many people, try to please everyone, you please no one?
i still stand by the libertarian party, if only because the dems and repubs seem to have lost their way, and they haven't quite worked out for the last 20 years or so (to my liking).
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Originally Posted by Derwood
I just don't get the notion that if we all try hard enough, we'll all be CEO's. This idea that there are an infinite amount of jobs/opportunities out there, and everyone has the chance to be successful is simply untrue, and ignores the fact that society can't operate with all chiefs and no indians
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that's the fallacy. we can't all be CEOs. like it or not, two people sitting under a tree, one of them MUST be in charge, over the other. there will ALWAYS be one group over another, total equality is impossible. we can (and SHOULD) have equal opportunity, equal rights, but we can't be equal. i'm waaay better than many folks. even more folks are waaaay better than me. that is how it is.
someone is gonna be poor, someone is gonna be rich, someone is gonna be in the middle. of course the guy on the bottom doesn't want to be there, and the guy at the top doesn't see the problem.
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
So, basically, a libertarian is a classical liberal? A liberal who leans towards the free market and individual rights and freedoms, as opposed to social liberalism and the welfare state?
Well, I suppose that's one flavour of it anyway....
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i thought libertarians were more conservative than republicans.