Blinded by hatred?
LewRockwell.Com
by Per Bylund
09/27/07
What disturbs me about the pro-war position of so-called libertarians, and their fierce defense of war itself as a legitimate means for a greater collective good, is that it is so contradictory it beats every available schoolbook example of what is a contradiction. Individual rights are sacrificed in order to save individual rights and our ‘way of life.’ They say ‘we’ must do something ‘now,’ yet the persons arguing this point are certainly not going to do anything. They are so busy writing blog posts defending the killings in distant countries they simply don’t have time to do the killing themselves. … Why this interest in people they don’t know dying for the sake of protecting rights that are already being abolished in every western nation? I simply don’t see how anyone can claim to be a proponent of individual rights while advocating wars where the lives of some individuals are forcefully sacrificed for the collective good and freedom of others...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bylund/bylund22.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/bylund
by Per Bylund
09/27/07
What disturbs me about the pro-war position of so-called libertarians, and their fierce defense of war itself as a legitimate means for a greater collective good, is that it is so contradictory it beats every available schoolbook example of what is a contradiction. Individual rights are sacrificed in order to save individual rights and our ‘way of life.’ They say ‘we’ must do something ‘now,’ yet the persons arguing this point are certainly not going to do anything. They are so busy writing blog posts defending the killings in distant countries they simply don’t have time to do the killing themselves. … Why this interest in people they don’t know dying for the sake of protecting rights that are already being abolished in every western nation? I simply don’t see how anyone can claim to be a proponent of individual rights while advocating wars where the lives of some individuals are forcefully sacrificed for the collective good and freedom of others...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bylund/bylund22.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/bylund
rudkla - 28. Sep, 11:52
