Reply #34: You saved me some typing. Thanks.

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It was chaos then and if laws were enacted, it was only because the Libertarians did not practice the personal responsibility they so rave about. Regulation was inevitable, and if it had not happened, the people, the mob, whatever we want to call them, would have burned everything down. Any philosophy that doesn't know the masses must be at least a little content is truly ignorant of basic human psychology. This is exactly why I'm no longer a card carrying libertarian, even though I still believe some of their principles. And the neocons are using them just like they use the fundies.

I could go for a balance between libertarianism and liberalism, and really don't think either could survive for long on their own.