Hibbert.pa@XEROX.COM (09/03/86)
I prefer the term dues-paying to card-carrying, since I try to keep my wallet as empty as I can. :-) I am a libertarian, and a member of the Libertarian party. You've seen at least a few things from me in the list I was an objectivist for a time as well, but since that term means going along with everything that Rand believed, I've shed that label. (She had a remarkably limited view on women's issues for a women who believed in liberty.) I still use her ideas and arguments as a starting point for my beliefs about the proper role of government. These days I'm sometimes a minarchist (minimum government--police, courts, national defense) but more usually an anarchist (no government can function without coercing individuals.) I argue the minarchist line when it's convenient and moral, because it's easier for people to see how the economy could operate without intervention in a particular arena than to concieve that it might be possible to operate without any central government. I worked at GenRad from 1980 to 1984. Ask the people who are still around from back then if they remember me. (One of the last things I did there was to help with the conversion of teddy from VMS to UNIX.) It's too bad you arrived after I left. I would have enjoyed arguing with an objectivist. Chris -------