A Matter of Definition
L. Neil Smith at Random - some libertarians feel an affinity for so-called "conservatives". Conservatives and liberals are just the right and left wing of the socialist party. But you knew that.
The simple fact, of course, is that there's no such thing as a collective. There's no such thing as a group. It's only a bunch of individuals temporarily clumped together, pooling their incompetence. Socialism is nothing more than the political manifestation -- several rival competing brands, actually -- of the cannibalistic philosophy of collectivism.
At this point, then, it becomes appropriate to ask what all of the following phrases have in common: national security; war on terrorism; nation-building; democratization; common decency; and the seat of all virtues.
Simple: they are all excuses for sacrificing the lives, property, and rights of the individual to some collective or another. Only in this case, it's a collective approved by specimens who call themselves conservatives.
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