mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) (02/16/85)
>As a government, libertarianism, the marketplace of societies, hasn't been >tried on a sufficiently large scale to yield valid results. On the other hand >the marketplace of species, evolution, has been tried for millions of years; >it works. Not proven. Evolution has got us where we are today. Not everyone would agree to that as a demonstration that evolution works (at least, that it works well, which is what I think Cliff means). It may not be working at all for very much longer. Perhaps the analogy is a good warning against trying libertarianism on a large scale. -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsrgv!dciem!mmt