tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21959228.post115888648786241439..comments2024-03-28T09:14:52.110+00:00Comments on Sinclair's Musings: The strange death of my libertarianismMatthew Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05948452770723874618noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21959228.post-1171379374017350592007-02-13T15:09:00.000+00:002007-02-13T15:09:00.000+00:00Sorry to post on an old page of yours, I'm not ver...Sorry to post on an old page of yours, I'm not very au fait with blog etiquette so I hope you will forgive any transgressions.<BR/><BR/>I have just watched the video to which you refer, and it seems to be that by allowing your libertarianism to die you are acting against good sense.<BR/><BR/>You have an irrational fear of being seen as 'libertarian lite' and sem too caught up in the studenty notion that libertarianism has to be an extreme doctrine.<BR/><BR/>It is not, it is a perfectly rational and reasonable doctrine, and to verge on anarchism is simply to take libertarianism beyond its natural and comfortably human territory.<BR/><BR/>What you witnessed was not the death of your libertarianism, but the death of your immature (I mean that in the developmental, not the derogatory sense) liberal anarchism.<BR/><BR/>Individual liberty should always be the starting point for a format of human existence, but libertarianism does not mean we have no laws or government or enforcement agencies, it means we have laws to protect our liberties, rather than to regulate or remove them.<BR/><BR/>Don't turn your back on liberty through a misinterpetation of its nature, we need it now more than ever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com