[TriLUG] Libertarians are jerks? (was: Re: [offtopic] Considering a move to RDU area)

[Jason Watts]

 wow... look what I started....

gents... lets burry the metaphoric hatchet (not in each others back) and and
realize that no matter how wrong you feel the others view is... that its
their own view... besides you dont want to scare off the potential new
commer no?

(I might be over steping my bounds... but I have seen all sorts of poltical
debates turn into mud slinging personal debates. so lets drop the mud
slinging and talk about which distro is better :)

goodnight ... its late im heading to sleep

Jason
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Phillip Rhodes <mindcrime at cpphacker.co.uk>
wrote:

> James Tuttle wrote:
>
> >
> > Gee, and that Libertarian thing was just starting to grow on me.  The
> > funny thing is that I haven't ever talked to anyone who claimed to be a
> > Libertarian who wasn't a jerk.  Of course, that's probably just my obvious
> > character flaws talking.
> >
>
> I'm sorry to hear that you consider me a jerk, James.  What exactly
> have I said to you to earn that label?  To the best of my
> knowledge our conversations have been limited to a comment
> I left on your blog, and a brief email exchange concerning
> my blog post about education / hiring.  I don't recall
> saying anything "jerkish" in either case, but if I did, please
> accept my apology.
>
> I won't offer any excuses for (l|L)ibertarians who do act like
> jerks, myself included.  But please try considering how
> things feel from our perspective: our most fundamtal rights (the right
> to control our lives and property without coercion) are being
> violated *every* day by the very government that - in theory - exiss
> for the purpose of protecting our rights.  A lot of (l|L)ibertarians
> are fairly angry about this state of affairs and not all of us
> do a good job of putting our emotions aside and sticking to
> rational discussions.  But I'd say almost all of us *try* to
> do so, more often than not.  At least that's been my experience.
>
>
> BTW, can we move this to the "offtopic" list?  Sending this
> message there to try and seed the switch...
>
>
>
> TTYL,
>
>
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