16th July 2015, 6:24 AM
nickdaddyg Wrote:Weltall: The point of libertarianism is liberty and self-ownership. These are very similar concepts, but I say them both because "liberty" best implies our universal rights, those being rights that can apply to all people and do not contradict themselves... thus leading to freedom from violation. And the term "self-ownership" implies responsibility for one's actions taken.
See, all that sounds really nice on paper. But then you start getting into things like no building codes, no standards for drinking water, no pollution regulation, and corporate monopolies/cartels, and that's where the idea of "that government is best which governs least" really starts to fall apart.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.