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Re: Are there any libertarian societies?
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Originally Posted by wiggidy
After the revolution pre Civil War. I thought that was implied.
As for the slavery, yes they could, they didn't view slaves as human beings. I disagree with that, but everything besides slavery was extremely libertarian. Hell, even blacks owned slaves.
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Any political philosophy which posits the non humanity of any group of humans is by definition not a libertarian philosophy.
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A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master, who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.
Edward Gibbon
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