User talk:Der Eberswalder/Konfederacio Orienta Prusio

Moved because of the pre-existing policy Wikipedia is not a crystal ball: the KOP is (at this time) a purely hypothetical proposal for the development of East Prussia. --Der Eberswalder 18:50, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

problems

To make this proposal slightly less fantastic (as in very low probability, fantasy), make its territory include only Kaliningrad_Oblast (why require cooperation from Poland and Russia, neither of which will be eager to cooperate, to say the least) and remove Polish, German and Esperanto from the list of official languages -- there are virtually no speakers of these in Kaliningrad. --Mike Linksvayer 00:11, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I see that too. However, I think it is wise to start with the maximum position to gain something. If one starts with a compromise one will get an even less desirable compromise. Both parts of East Prussia are under occupation, and AFAIK it was only meant to be a temporary occupation until a solution for this country is achieved.

Rothbard expressed it that way:

If liberty is to be the highest political end, then this implies that liberty is to be pursued by the most efficacious means, i.e., those means which will most speedily and thoroughly arrive at the goal. This means that the libertarian must be an “ abolitionist,” i.e., he must wish to achieve the goal of liberty as rapidly as possible. If he balks at abolitionism, then he is no longer holding liberty as the highest political end.

The libertarian, then, should be an abolitionist who would, if he could, abolish instantaneously all invasions of liberty. Following the classical liberal Leonard Read, who advocated immediate and total abolition of price-and-wage controls after World War II, we might refer to this as the “button-pushing” criterion. Thus, Read declared that “If there were a button on this rostrum, the pressing of which would release all wage-and-price controls instantaneously I would put my finger on it and push!”

The libertarian, then, should be a person who would push a button, if it existed, for the instantaneous abolition of all invasions of liberty — not something, by the way, that any utilitarian would ever be likely to do. [1] --Der Eberswalder 23:37, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]