Letters to the Editor
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I don't want to get into that pissing match here but before you can designate any given "pissing match" on the subject as "libertarian/anti-libertarian" you first have to define libertarianism and decide who is and who is not a libertarian.
LWM, I just don't care "who is and who is not a libertarian." By no means do I mean to imply that some subjects are less worthy than others, but this recurrent fixation here over libertarianism looks very narrow and solipsistic to anyone not so fixated. It's also highly annoying and distracting to non-libertarian-related discussion (i.e., everything else), such as when there is a perfectly good topic to discuss, and somehow it inevitably gets yanked back to the endless libertarian death vortex. Also, the personal rivalries are insipid and parochial.
Just don't get me wrong, LWM and Timberman, I'm not trying to impose some kind of standard of worthiness for debate. I'm just trying to articulate what I think a lot of other people are surely thinking - that the Libertarian Wars get old and distracting. I'm sure a lot of people see certain names of commenters, and just scroll right on by, knowing there's nothing new to see.
I guess I wouldn't care if I had to click through so much of it to get to the interesting comments. That's all.