hmmm....I consider myself a libertarian of sorts as well. (I currently describe myself as a "Green Libertarian" - I don't know whether that will make sense to anybody else.) Basically, I am really big on individual liberties, where it is understoon that the natural boundaries on the freedom of any one person to do whatever they please exist where their actions come into conflict with the freedom of any other person. (Understand that raping or killing someone is a serious infringement of the victim's freedom.), and that by individual, I mean individual human beings; and corporations, since they are not biologically human beings or even any other kind of creature, but are comprised of collections of people, each of whom is themselves an individual, cannot be construed to be "invididuals" and such are not entitled to the same liberties as an actual human citizen.

And those two things, even if the same rules *were* applied to corporations, would pretty much prevent a lot of the earlier problems, because every single one of those, and all of the environmental cases as well, could be construed to be infringing on the lives and liberties of others.

Very good editorial though. I too have met the young (and sometimes not-so-young) ideolouges who have not actually thought something all the way through, with all of its costs and ramifications, but who, having reached a conclusion stubbornly cling to it despite all arguments.