re limiting govt was re employment in article qqikr sd morrow stanford edu xa u forsythe stanford edu writes in article apr pony ingres com garrett ingres com grep a friend writes in article apr eecs nwu edu ian epsilon eecs nwu edu ian writes i couldn t disagree with you more strongly it sounds good but in practice it too often becomes tyranny because there are too often conflicting ideas of what constitutes improving the human condition far better to let people and their organizations pursue whatever goals they think best and let the human condition be improved by those who are willing to do so without coercion there will always be conflicting ideas on what constitutes improving the human condition that s humanity you seem to believe that libertarianism will improve the human condition by lifting all constraints and that people will have a better chance of improving themselves in that environment let me try to put it another way libertarians believe that an unconstrained environment provides the best chance of solving any problem because it maximizes creativity however there is never any guarantee that a really good solution will ever be found to any particular problem utopia is not an option utopia is a myth although we can do a lot better than what we have today but i think that you must pitch libertarianism as a progressive agenda ie you can do better under our style of system i admire a lot of what the libertarians stand for but you guys are some of the worst salesmen i have ever seen and when it comes to politics you need salesmen whether you want them or not what we need are more people who agree with us know something about marketin and are willing to both do that marketing and teach others how to are you in i m flattered by your invitation but i m afraid you have the wrong person although i completely agree with your civil liberties agenda i m not in support of your economic agenda what i do like about the libertarian party is that you guys are so good at shaking up the tired ideas of the past i encourage you guys to continue your crusade but i m afraid i can t ride along ian sutherland ian eecs nwu edu nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has garrett johnson come tussman garrett ingres com june nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has garrett johnson come tussman garrett ingres com the probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action unknown
