From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 21 2002 - 16:56:27 MDT
Anders Sandberg wrote:
Personally, I think this demand for perfection is the worst problem of
most ideologies today. The irony is that libertarianism is based on
liberal thought, and that is one of the few systems that does not
presuppose people to be perfect or perfectible.
### But it assumes your willingness to deny yourself some simple and easy
solutions to your problems, doesn't it? You can't hope to gang together with
a bunch of other guys and extort cash (directly, if you are the feudal
type), in the form of entitlements (for the social democrat), or the
monopoly rent (for the corporatist).
This does make libertarianism hard to swallow for many. Only with continued
ethical growth of the average citizen can you hope there will be enough nice
people one day to make the anarchist dreams come true.
Some reports say that the average ethical level varies across nations - this
implies humans are, if not perfectible, at least amenable to improvement
under the right influences.
Rafal
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