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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 - 7:11pmSanction this postReply
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Statism and anarchism are both examples of a fundamental lack of regard for the rights of human beings. The golden mean is when you achieve a system that is designed to protect the rights of man, not to hinder them.

The bad effects of statism do not serve as justification for the bad effects of anarchism.

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 4:23amSanction this postReply
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The bad effects of statism do not serve as justification for the bad effects of anarchism.
I'm respectfully wondering what the purpose of your post was, since the bad effects of neither were actually discussed? Most Objectivists deal with the mention of anarchism by dismissing it off hand.

"That's already been settled, everyone knows anarchism is bad. Thank God we all agree or we might have to actually discuss it!"

Incidentally, I didn't think Waltz was an anarchist (but I've been wrong before), so I viewed the quote more as a humorous jab at Government.


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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 1:05pmSanction this postReply
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If anarchy is identified with chaos, destruction and death, then the distinction between anarchy and bad government does not tell us much
 
There, much better.
 
Andy.


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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 1:31pmSanction this postReply
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Who is Kenneth Waltz?


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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 7:30pmSanction this postReply
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http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/faculty/waltzbio.html

Kenneth N. Waltz
Kenneth Waltz is Emeritus Ford Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley. He is past President of the American Political Science Association (1987-1988) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His publications include Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis (1959), Foreign Policy and Democratic Politics: The American and British Experience (1967, reissued in 1992), Theory of International Politics (1979), and, with Scott Sagan, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate (1995). Dr. Waltz is also coeditor and coauthor, with Robert Art, of The Use of Force, now in its fourth edition. His "Nuclear Mythos and Political Realities" won the Heinz Eulau award for best article in the American Political Science Review in 1990.
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