plumb-line

The obviously correct political view to have is plumb-line libertarianism.

Internet and Ideology, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Then she played to him - no longer at him - and probed him with music that sank to depths beyond her plumb-line.

Chapter 8 2010

And if you draw a plumb-line through the whole movie, you have the outline of what would make a rather enjoyable, (and non-headache incuding, a'hem Wachowski bros.)

Sound Off: Iron Man - What Did You Think? « FirstShowing.net 2008

So long as cultural values are expressed without indulging in government intervention or any other form of coercion, Block argues, it should not matter to plumb-line libertarians whether the cultural values in question are left wing, right wing, or something else: Give me a break; this issue has nothing to do with libertarianism.

Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2008 – October – 03 2008

Personally though, I take just the admission that paying for an assassination is even considered a hard case at all, to be a good argument against plumb-line libertarianism.

On people as possessions 2008

So long as cultural values are expressed without indulging in government intervention or any other form of coercion, Block argues, it should not matter to plumb-line libertarians whether the cultural values in question are left wing, right wing, or something else: Give me a break; this issue has nothing to do with libertarianism.

Libertarianism through Thick and Thin 2008

The reason that it matters what plumb-line anarchists believe is because violating those principles necessarily involves doing something brutal and wrong, e.g. harassing, arresting, beating, jailing, ruining, exiling, etc. innocent people.

Dropping the plumb line 2007

But certainly a letter which is written by an anarchist for an audience which includes many other anarchists ought to take such core beliefs seriously, and to recognize that arguments that either tacitly or explicitly presume the falsity of those core doctrines will fail to be persuasive to those who follow the plumb-line.

Dropping the plumb line 2007

But certainly a letter which is written by an anarchist for an audience which includes many other anarchists ought to take such core beliefs seriously, and to recognize that arguments that either tacitly or explicitly presume the falsity of those core doctrines will fail to be persuasive to those who follow the plumb-line.

Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2007 – December – 11 2007

The keeper lowered his hands into the depths of his pockets, twirled his eyes, balanced himself on his toes, looked as perpendicularly downward as if his glance were a plumb-line, then horizontally, collecting together the cracks that lay about his face till they were all in the neighbourhood of his eyes.

Under the Greenwood Tree 2006