OT:authoritarian or libertarian was Re: [Gllug] Whitelist-only spam filtering

[Sean Burlington]

David Damerell wrote:
> On Thursday, 12 Sep 2002, Sean Burlington wrote:
> 
>>David Damerell wrote:
>>
>>>On Thursday, 12 Sep 2002, Sean Burlington wrote:
>>>
>>>>libertarian: a beliver in free will, a person who believes in the 
>>>>maximum amount of free thought, behavior etc
>>>
>>>That is _not_ what the word is used to mean these days.
>>
>>given that it is hard to gather a reprentative sample of people and ask 
>>them how they use the word libertarian - what do you actually have 
>>against me using it in this way ??
> 
> 
> 1) I think you run the risk of being mistaken for an American-style
>    properatarian.
> 2) I think "liberal" says what you mean - except to the subset of
>    Yanks for whom it's a swearword along with "socialist", but they're
>    insane anyway.

well to me liberal is pretty much synonomous with wet

I think maybe its a word that different people use in different ways - 
this isn't something I am making up on my own ...

besides I'd rather use a word that makes peole say 'thats not what you 
mean' and have a chance to explain myself that use a word like liberal 
where everyone thinks thaey know what I mean but are most likely 
interpreting what I say in a way I would prefer they didn't.

I could really confuse those particalar yanks by using the term 
socialist libertarian ;)

Sean





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