12-06-2013, 08:48 AM
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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
no. It's just that the reason I became a libertarian is that I realized that I myself was defending things that I did not actually believe in, simply to blindly support one "tribe" over the other, (and the tribe changed a couple of times over my life), rather than stick with the things I knew were correct no matter which tribe espoused them. I feel that it's important to try to get people to think about what they REALLY believe and want in the world, rather than blindly play out this "our tribe vs the other tribe" mentality.
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but that's not what happened here nor what i was referring.
dude posted this:
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Originally Posted by BFT3K
There are people who still believe the government's version of events? Wow, talk about gullible idiots...
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your libertarian retort to that:
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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
....and yet you want to give that same government control over your money, your healthcare, your education, the way you do business, etc, etc, etc, etc..... (i.e. most aspects of your life), and trust them to do all those things better than you can, without being self serving, corrupt, incompetent, having hidden agendas, etc....
Interesting dichotomy ....
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