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Responding to me, "Me"?

m > Me <none@urbusiness.com>

m > So tell me how the personal quest for greed and gain embodied in conser-
    vative and libertarian ethics demonstrates a concern for community and 
    civil responsibilities?  Hmm?

  First off, conservatism and libertarianism have only one thing in common -
  they aren't leftism, which you seem to think is the same as liberalism.

  I'll speak only for myself, not other libertarians, and certainly not for
  conservatives, since I'm not one. Please define "greed" and "gain" for me,
  so I know what your definitions are.

m > I haven't seen anyone from the left toting machine guns, grenades, or
    blowing up federal buildings lately, have you?  Hmmm?

  "Lately"? You must be a young person. Attempting to smear non-leftists with
  association with terrorists makes you a simpleton.

m > The left doesn't insist on "new" rights.

  Baloney. The "right" to a "living wage", housing, medical care, &c &c are
  all positive rights of the socialist kind. I see no mention in the US BoR
  about those things.

m > And for Mr. Blasciak who offered that "Boulder" was bastion of liberalism,

  It is.

m > Noting like fanaticism and intolerance as community values, or else.

  There's plenty of fanatics and intolerant folks on the Left, trust me.

  Besides, where's your answer to the Left pandering to the notion of "col-
  lective identity"? Isn't that exactly what the Left promotes, group rights
  and crude tribal collectivism?
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Gary Strand
strandwg@ucar.edu                              http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/ccr/gary