At 07:49 AM 8/13/2009, you wrote: > > > >To you and to me and to most libertarians, sure; but to those >libertarians who are Pacifists it is not an option. Note how they >snuck onto the LP page a prohibition against any and all USE of >Violence, not just its Initiation: >"Libertarians oppose... the use of violence to achieve political... goals." > >Fortunately, the very first Plank in the LP Platform is still the >Non-Aggression Principle: >================================================================= >================================================================= >1.0 Personal Liberty >... >No individual, group, or government may initiate force against any >other individual, group, or government. >================================================================= >================================================================= > >This Principle, known as NAP or cutely ZAP, allows for unlimited >retaliation and retribution, but not INITIATION of Force. Many >libertarians abjure unlimited retaliation,, but a NAP Libertarian >can follow the Non-Aggression Principle and still retaliate as much >as he wishes; if the other guy doesn't like it, he shouldn't have STARTED it.
The so called "party of Principle" has forgotten what this is all about, in its focus on gaining Power within the system. If you think about it, any form of coercive government would by its nature violate the ZAP. Thus real libertarians would be anarchists.
