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Being dependent is being a slave to that on which one is addicted. Being independent means having the freedom to do what one wants without having to resort to an addiction. For example, when one is dependent on drugs for his existence, the individu

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Comment by Anonymous
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To me -- I don't know to other Libertarians -- this is not quite a recommendable but rather a controversial "Liberty Movement"!

Comparing to -- and considering Dependency as a form of -- alcohol or drug addiction, may be viewed as extreme libertarianism that even Moderate Libertarians like me would have difficulty to argue much more support in public. Studies as well as records show that hardly does a stone-hard addict hooked to eternal damnation, is aware that he/she has a problem [the mind is screwed up]. There is a need of institutional "intervention" – psychological and moral, mostly spiritual – before the addict starts on the road to personal healing.

This written thought that we as a nation should not depend on or call on the Government to solve our problems – meaning our national problems to be specific – leaves out a host of questions, and finding their answers is like looking for my lost contact lens in a pile of garbage.

For example, our immigration and "overpopulation" problems bugged this nation for years. As pissed off citizens of this country, we cannot solve these problems personally, i.e. unlock the closet and pick up our rifles and handguns, drive to the border and shoot Mexican fence-jumpers on sight. Not even if you go to Arizona and be a random border shooter there. If Obama will not get you, naturalized Mexican "Indians" on the warpath will make you a very nice target for their shooting practice.

Since we could neither do it personally nor individually, as taxpayers, shouldn’t we call on the Government – Federal and State – to solve this institutionalized "overpopulation" and immigration problems?

Is it "dependency" – written in this article as an abomination – to call on those who work in government, to do their duty to deserve our hard-earned money paid to them in the form of taxes?

Is this a form of "addiction" alluded to in this article?

How in God’s name are you able to answer these questions, just samples from still a truckload of them … how to morally answer them not only properly but correctly? Maybe the wisdom of Divine Providence may not even help! On the contrary, the curse of Divine Providence may even damn those impertinent and disrespectful thinking of Libertarian extremists that wage an anti-Government war in the Web. Radical libertarianism similar to the pounding of the wall by the Left is definitely not for me. As a Moderate Libertarian that’s the kind of "fight" I turn tail and run away from.

On the other hand, if we fail to get out of this dependency trap by insisting that we don’t call on the Government to solve for us these problems -- these our particular problems, in fact painful "overpopulation" and immigration migraines that make our head spin -- we create a virtual enemy out of the American people. At least I know one who would be extremely unhappy and probably would angrily explode in your face – damn you "innumerate"! You don’t know how to count, etc. etc.

By the way "innumerate" is not a nice word. Don’t confuse it with symbologist Robert Langdon’s "Illuminati" in the world of angels and demons staring cinematography’s celebrities Tom Hanks and the smart, pretty and sexy French actress Ayelet Zurer.


Comment by Anonymous
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By the way, my comment below is not an act of war, or a declaration of war inside our ideological domain ... it is not an act of hostility inside our philosophical house of libertarian beliefs and concerns, but rather a redefinition of our libertarian principles, aspirations and passion for liberty and freedom that somehow had swayed a little bit to the left or had to a certain degree, noticeably differed over time.

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