What makes one a libertarian?/was Re: [extropy-chat] Rand

[Hara Ra]

Well, I am registered as one. How - ever, I can't say I fully agree with 
them. Some issues are:

1) Very strange folk who become Lib candidates. Not very palatable, just 
other parties are at least as bad.
2) No real way to deal with people who are hurt enough to need some 
assistance, during some parts of my life, welfare and soc security were a 
godsend, albeit inadequate.
3) Lib and Anarchy both presume rational people and decision making. Nice 
ideal, but unreal.

  Al Brooks kerry_prez at yahoo.com wrote:
> > Libertarians used to be on this list
> > (heavens to Betsy, where did they
> > go?),
TechnoT said:

>Well, that question presupposes that something non-logical must make
>people libertarians -- like a traumatic experience.  Isn't it possible
>that some libertarians might just be libertarian because they believe
>the idea to be sound, logical, and better than the alternatives?

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