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Hope, Phil, it springs eternal. That someday man may overcome his baser instincts and truly strive to do what is right. A dream of Utopia, just a dream, a hope that someday we may achieve through our actions a better way than this. There's really a part of me that feels that way, the other part says we're going down for the last time
Where Phil and others make their fundamental mistake concerning libertarian thought is to think of it as striving for a utopia. A utopia is dependent upon man constantly exercising his goodness, as well as a belief in the perfectability of man. Neither is necessary for a libertarian-oriented world. Reward and punishment are still motivators, though in a libertarian and free market based environment they will be, for the most part, self-induced. Yours, Issodhos
We live in a world with real problems and simply do not have the luxury of waiting for your "free market" solutions to adjust behavior. When a person needs immediate medical care it is no avail that the insurance company that denies them coverage to increase their profit margin might be in competition by another carrier at some future date which agrees to the coverage. That person will be long dead before the "market" works.
Your philosophy is suitable for those with substantial resources, not for 90% of the world's or even the US population. You are a dreamer, and that is not bad, it is just useless.
Life is a banquet -- and most poor suckers are starving to death -- Auntie Mame You are born naked and everything else is drag - RuPaul
There's really a part of me that feels that way, the other part says we're going down for the last time 
