Re: Leftists knocking Friedman ?

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:35:26 -0700 (PDT), Sketch System
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>On Mar 11, 4:08 pm, Vide...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
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>>  its a country with pure capitalism. you want a nanny state. if you
>> were a rugged individual, you could defend your own rights and
>> properties.
>>  then again, if it was pure laissez faire, all information is perfect,
>> all transactions are between rational human beings, so you would need
>> no nanny state:)
>
>You seem to think that anarchism and capitalism are the same somehow.
>Laizzes fair Capitalism is merely a separation of economics and state,
>much like secularism is a separation of church and state.  However,
>there is still a need for the protection of individual rights, and
>that is the proper - and necessary - roll of government precisely
>because not all human beings are rational.


Which means that "separation" you claim is really nonexistent and a
fiction. smart people realize that.