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Most Libertarians oppose the draft, but not on the grounds you claim. Your posts are not consistent with libertarian beliefs, they are consistent with self-centered egotism.
I suggest you reread the link you provided.
Should have paid attention to what I said, Clandestine. My political beliefs are closer to the Libertarians than the Republicans, but I don't agree with their foreign policy policies. And Libertarianism doesn't have "tenets", as you would also find if you paid any attention to political philosophies instead of putting your own spin on things.
n. a belief, opinion, or dogma
Every political philosophy has its tenets, Greenie. Unless Libertarians believe in nothing, nor have any opinions! lol.
You definitely belie the latter aspect!
You're wrong again. I stated that the draft is wrong because it violates people's freedom (the reason why most libertarians oppose it). Check out the Gordon Brown and public finances thread if you dispute libertarian credentials.
It seems your libertarianism is acutally quasi-libertarianism as you have never turly advocated any freedom here (be it personal or economic in nature).
You are claiming that individuals have no responsibility to the state under Libertarian belief. Given the reliance on the works of the Founding Fathers, that is more than slightly hard to swallow. Libertarians believe that such responsibilities must be accepted freely. Therefore, they oppose conscription. However, that isn't the same as claiming that the responsibilities don't exist.
"tenet" like "dogma" is generally held to be beliefs that cannot be varied from, Clandestine. The Libertarian Party doesn't claim to have such, unless you want to classify a very general belief in individual liberty as a tenet.
These anarchists (or anarcho-capitalists, to be precise) don't accept the notion of the draft.
No I'm a minarchist (, i.e. a libertarian who believes in a minimum state) who has not 'defended' anyone here.
Practically all libertarians, be they minarchists or anarchists, believe that the draft is wrong. For some reason you fail to see that.
Whilst a state can be a defender of it's citizens freedoms it can aslo take them away or seek to take it away from others, applying a blanket law of conscription at the states behest fails to negotitate the nuisssances of a particular situation, it is because of this that people are given the right to free choice in liberal democracies/republics.........
Since Monocrat seems to have difficulty comprehending the written word.