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Radar · 01-07-2003, 11:54 AM

The LP isn't based on the NAP, although it's an extremely important part of it. The NAP is a great part of the LP but hardly all of it. The fact that the NAP doesn't address the death penalty has nothing to do with the fact that it's not on the party's platform. It has more to do with the fact that the party is very split on the issue. The NAP is a great part of any philosophy but the Libertarian Philosophy is based on far more than this one part.

There is no "social contract" among Americans, and people don't owe money to "society" because we are society. What is best for society is never different than what is best for individuals because society is made up of individuals. Society is not a collective or an entity that has rights or is owed money, etc. Society is a group of individuals who each have rights but the collective has none.

When individuals do what's best for themselves, they are doing what's best for society because they ARE society. We owe nothing to the government and the government isn't entitled to even a single penny of our earnings. All income based taxation is nothing more than armed robbery and nobody has ever proven otherwise.

01-07-2003, 11:54 AM	#12
Radar Constitutional Scholar Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Ocala, FL Posts: 4,006	The LP isn't based on the NAP, although it's an extremely important part of it. The NAP is a great part of the LP but hardly all of it. The fact that the NAP doesn't address the death penalty has nothing to do with the fact that it's not on the party's platform. It has more to do with the fact that the party is very split on the issue. The NAP is a great part of any philosophy but the Libertarian Philosophy is based on far more than this one part. There is no "social contract" among Americans, and people don't owe money to "society" because we are society. What is best for society is never different than what is best for individuals because society is made up of individuals. *Society* is not a collective or an entity that has rights or is owed money, etc. Society is a group of individuals who each have rights but the collective has none. When individuals do what's best for themselves, they are doing what's best for society because they ARE society. We owe nothing to the government and the government isn't entitled to even a single penny of our earnings. All income based taxation is nothing more than armed robbery and nobody has ever proven otherwise.