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Date Posted: 06:09:19 01/30/00 Sun
Author: bnimble
Subject: Is you is, or is you ain't?
In reply to: GF 's message, "Minarchist or Anarchist?" on 04:13:45 01/30/00 Sun

> I've never really pinned myself down, as to whether
> I'm a minarchist or an anarchist. Yesterday I was
> pinned down by someone who knows me very well every
> way but politically, I guess. She refuses to discuss
> politics because she feels it's irrelevant. She does
> know that I'm of libertarian mind, but she says
> politics is like the weather: you can talk about it
> till you're blue in the face, but you can't do a thing
> about it, except try to stay out of the rain. Why
> spend energy on it that you could be using
> constructively?, she says. She has a point.
>
> Out of the blue she asked me if I was an anarchist. It
> shocked me--partly because that was a point blank
> political question coming from someone who, as far as
> anybody knows, is apolitical--and partly because I
> don't think I've ever really asked myself that
> question. I told her I really don't know.
>
> I explained my position, that I believe that , if
> government should exist, it should only exist on a
> community level. Whether I'm an anarchist or a
> minarchist depends upon whether you consider a fairly
> small bunch of people getting together every once in
> awhile to deal with stuff, a government.
>
> She said it depends upon what I think they should talk
> about. She has a high IQ (very high), and mentally
> intimidates me without meaning to. So I didn't ask her
> what she meant by that (damn ego). So I will have to
> ponder it until I figure it out.
>
> You guys are smart. Maybe you can help me out. I
> believe they should talk about how to solve the
> problems of the community without infringing upon the
> rights of individuals.
>
> Am I minarchist or anarchist?? GF

Discussing politics is like discussing how much
control--and done in what manner--you would
give to another entity to do that which you
yourself find distasteful and would never dream
of doing yourself.

At least, that' one of my definitions.

As long as I can make the claim to be excluded
and make it easily stick, talk your plans all
you like.

But we all live in anarchy as there is only
self-government. Some self-governors just
have better manners than others. And other
self-governors follow rules laid out by
other self-governors, the former not knowing
or caring about governing themselves and...

...thinking for themselves.

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