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smegma:
Tsk Tsk rockman. I've always respected your seeming intelligence and logic. Personal attacks are so demeaning to you. Dragon seems to launch into them right away as well. Very disappointing.
Libertarianism versus anarchism. There you might have a valid point. I'll have to chew on that for a bit.
You're defending suiciders. So of course I'll launch personal attacks against you. Especially when you say that they don't offend you if they don't hit you.
Part of human nature is that 99% of us have common decency. It's called empathy. When we see someone else suffering, we share in their suffering. It is ingrained in us due to the survival of the fittest, where the ability to feel empathy for others makes for a stronger society than one where everyone is like Ayn Rand's model person and is unaffected by the suffering of others.
To say that you don't have the empathy that most of humanity has, is a very scary thought, especially when you consider what Jared Loughner did.
Even if you support the suicider's right to suicide, you should also not just support our right to pre-emptively dispose of them, but you should also find their actions distasteful. And that is what worries me about you. You're the type of libertarian that I do not like associating with.