- What in your opinion is the most important libertarian principle that a 2/3 majority of NatCon delegates would agree is missing from the Platform Committee's current draft?
- What in your opinion are the most important specific policy questions that a 2/3 majority of NatCon delegates would agree do not have any answer in the Platform Committee's current draft but should?
The Dallas Accord was not really the minarchists compromising with the anarchists, but rather capitulating to them. :-) What role or power of the state did the DA-compliant platforms not call for eliminating? How is personal secession not the functional equivalence of anarchism? The DA-compliant platforms essentially said we would hollow out the state, and "compromised" by not saying whether we'd throw away the empty broken shell.
However, it's not like the PlatCom's proposal actually rules out anarchism. Below are the parts of the draft that are relevant to the Dallas Accord. Every sentence below was in a previous LP Platform.
- [G]overnments, when instituted, must not violate individual rights
http://libertarianmajority.net/free-variables-in-libertarian-theory. Do you think any of them have a "purist" binding? I agree that enfranchisement according to sexuality definitely does not qualify for the list.