From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Sat Jul 06 2002 - 22:01:35 MDT
From: "Reason" <reason@exratio.com>
> --> Olga Bourlin
> > Realistically and IMHO I don't think we'll ever see a libertarian
society. Don't think there has ever been a time when a libertarian society
worked,
> Iceland, c900-1200.
Iceland? In the Middle Ages? Aiiiiii (as you probably know, there's been
some debate on this issue; and, in any case, how relevant can culture a
thousand years back in time compare to our entirely different, populous,
complicated, diverse world?). EVEN if that were true (and if we could
magically make that society relevant to our time), the very fact that we
have to go back a thousand years, to dig up ONE example - I say, this does
not bode well for the libertarian argument.
> The only one I'm aware of. Somalia now might qualify
as borderline sort of maybeish in an undesirable way.
Ditto to maybeish and undersirable. (And I'll believe it when I see
libertarians fleeing to Somalia in droves.)
> And what of early post-declaration America? Up to maybe 1830 they were
doing a pretty good job at divorcing the state from religion and economics.
I would have been much more impressed if they were doing a pretty good job
at divorcing slavery from the masters.
Olga
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