In response to:
Dialogues overheard on a sinking boat in the ocean:
Captain: "You, help bail or we'll all sink."
Libertarian: "You have no right to tell me what to do."
Captain: "Don't all of you sit on the same side, because it is making us list and take on water."
Libertarian: "Society has no right to tell me that I cannot make it list."
Captain: "Quit drilling holes in the bottom of the boat, you idiot!"
Libertarian: "I'm only drilling them in MY part of the boat, so sod off."
Captain : "If we refuse to work together, this does not look good for any of us."
Libertarian: "Not good? Hell, no. My dope got wet! And it's all because YOU don't understand liberty."
As our focus continues to be on the violence in the Middle East, it is also important to pay attention to what is going on just south of our own border in Mexico. The war between the Mexican government and drug cartels is still raging with the war's latest victim being female Mayor Maria Santos Gorrostieta, who was beaten, burned, tortured and dumped for dead on the side of the road. Before being killed, Gorrostieta had been attacked twice by cartels for daring to challenge them. The third attack they waged on her, was her last.
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If your contributions owed more to Hayek or Mises, and less to cannabinol, you would be taken more seriously. Really, if you wanted people to get a good impression of libertarianism, you might want to yield the floor to the adult libertarians. There actually are not a few of them out there--but you are not among them.