[ExI] What the France!?

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 14:15:59 UTC 2009


2009/4/9 Eschatoon Magic <eschatoon at gmail.com>:
> I thought you were a libertarian, what is this stalinist crap about burkas?
>
> Aren't libertarian supposed to like individual freedom? What business
> of yours is if someone likes to wear a burka? Why don't you mind your
> own business?
>
> Ah yes, I see -- you call yourself a libertarian in the sense that you
> care about _your_ freedom to _remove_ the freedom of others. I prefer
> to refer to this attitude by another name.

It's freedom in the sense of the most authoritarian regime, which
allows everyone to say and do anything they want, with the only
restriction being that they don't say or do anything the regime
doesn't like.


-- 
Stathis Papaioannou



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