Quoting Boyd Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Look, I'm not as familiar with Barr's record as some of you are, but I >> have a question: Does somebody have to _always, from the beginning_ >> been a libertarian before he or she is pure enough? Isn't it possible >> for people to "learn better?" > > I did. Granted I was not in congress. But at one time I was much > the conservative. Until I began to realize that no ones rights > outweighed anyone elses rights. And that rights were an individual > thing. And it took over 15 years to discover Rand from that point > and 3 more from there to discover the LP. It is a long process for > some of us. > > BWS
That's more or less what I've been saying for a while---not _everybody_ is a libertarian straight from the cradle, and in this culture, it's more surprising that we have as many libertarians as we have than that there are non-libertarians around. And even libertarians disagree on some things. For that matter, I think that if I told El Neil, Himself himself, that I was going to treat every word out of his mouth as infallible gospel, and follow him around and treat him as a guru, he'd probably smack me one upside the head and tell me to do my *own* thinking. Too much of that sort of nonsense was part of what torpedoed the old Objectivist movement back in '68... ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
