The Most Crucial Gap in Politics

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:31:24 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

Gene Callahan at LewRockwell.com - Mr. Callahan considers the difference between anarchists and minarchists to be larger than the difference between minarchists and Stalinists. How much you beat your wife isn't important. Whether you beat her at all is the important point. [sunni]

Nothing I've said above implies that a minarchist, or anyone else who supports the existence of the State, is therefore necessarily a bad person. Rather, I think that for the most part probably they are basically quite decent people who simply happen to hold a mistaken idea. Indeed, some particular anarchist may be in every other respect an all-together more miserable instance of a human being than is some particular statist, despite the fact that the former happens to be right on the one issue of the State's right to exist.

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