<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 7:03 PM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">The argument you're making here is actually the typical anti-libertarian one: free people can make bad choices -- choices we disapprove of -- and this might cause harm to others -- someone might read Karl Marx and form a revolutionary group to take over society -- so we must limit their freedom -- control their reading of Marx, for instance. dan<br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">So you think that, for instance, limiting the amount of alcohol in one's bloodstream while driving a car is anti-libertarian? Really?</div></span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">bill w</div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"></div><br><div><br></div></span><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">We agree on that, the only caveat is that the person should have the ability to know what they're putting into their body. </font></div><font size="4"> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">So for that reason I think laws against selling a bottle of vodka to a 6 year old are reasonable, and when an adult reads a ingredients label that label should tell the truth. But if somebody wants to inject themselves with vitamins or heroin or cobra venom that's their decision to make not mine.</div></font></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">By the way, in my opinion the single most pressing libertarian issue in the world today has nothing to do with money, it's euthanasia. I think forcing somebody to live who wants to die is as great a violation of human rights as forcing somebody to die who wants to live. </font></div></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> John K Clark </font></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div dir="ltr">t </div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></div>
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