(urth) Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again)
brunians at brunians.org
brunians at brunians.org
Tue May 19 14:19:12 PDT 2009
Adam writes:
> On May 19, 2009, at 4:04 PM, James Wynn wrote:
>>> Adam sez:
>>> It is my choice to go live somewhere else without
>>> these restrictions, if I like. Like Mogadishu.
>>> Dan'l sez:
>>> If you don't like it, strongly enough, you are encouraged
>>> to go live in Somalia.
>> I'm not sure where some people got the idea that Somalia was founded
>> as a Libertarian/Liberal society, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't.
> I am merely offering Somalia as the closest approach to the ideal of a
> complete lack of functional civil society and to a Hobbesian all-
> against-all of which I am currently aware.
But we (the people on the other side of the argument) are none of us
arguing for a complete lack of functional civil society and a Hobbesian
all-against-all. Were you under the impression that we were?
> I don't think it was founded as a Libertopia. I think it does
> approximate the end state of a society in which there is not a
> government.
Perhaps someday you will choose to address the arguments that have
actually been made.
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