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[Phillip Rhodes <mindcrime AT cpphacker.co.uk>]

Karim Nassar wrote:


> Treating Corporations as "people" causes a lot of problems like this.

Since corporations are an artificial construct created and regulated
by the State, it's questionable if such a beast would even
exist in a purely Libertarian model, fwiw.


> The problem with the Libertarian worldview is that its agenda is most 
> often evaluated piece-meal. Certainly a strict market is unworkable 
> without other, equally important reforms such as equality in Justice, an 
> educated populace, and a dismantling of the artificial corporate support 
> systems that have been erected over the last 100 years to compensate for 
> the psuedo-market system that we have.

Thank you for making that point, Karim. I was going to say the same
thing, but you beat me too it. :-)


> In practice, Libertarianism may well be unworkable, but its values of 
> individual responsibility and individual freedoms are, IMHO, important 
> to advocate, especially in the modern environment of abdication of 
> responsibilities.

No ideology is ever adopted 100% it seems...  Libertarianism will
likely be no different.  Every group thinks that "if everybody would 
just do things our way, the world would be great" or whatever.  That's 
probably not actually true, regardless of which ideology / platform
you're discussing... but all told, I believe that if we're going to err
on how we govern our world, we should always favor erring towards
more freedom and individual responsibility.


TTYL,

Phil