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

[Jason Watts]

ps... disregards my spelling... its late and i forgot to run spellcheck

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Jason Watts <jsnonzzr at gmail.com> wrote:

>  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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