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The Tom Paine Network is at present composed of libertarians that
have Liberal Republican or Conservative Democratic backgrounds, that have
been or are
active in the U. S. Greens, that have been or are active in the Social
Ecology movement, and from the libertarian Geonomist school of political
economy. If you are familiar with the Nolan Chart, we are people who have come
to the Libertarian quintile from the Liberal and Centrist quintiles.
We are people who believe that the Libertarian principle of
non-initiation of aggression to accomplish social, political, and economic
goals, should be more broadly applied than a mere prohibition of physical
force between individuals. We believe that the principle should also apply
to humankind's relationship with nature. We believe that institutions can
and do take on a life of their own, and are not merely the sum of the
individuals in them. We believe that whatever the form of organization we
adopt as a people, no one individual should be worse off than if one were
in a state of nature with all one's natural rights intact.
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