Alibertarian's Comments
Libertarianism is often misunderstood. It is not anarchy. Of course there are laws, but they are simple and well defined, and they all drive from basic principles:
1 You own property (your land, your person, your stuff), and you get to do with it as you please.
2. You can not tell/force/control what someone else does with their property.
3. You cannot steal or harm other people's property, directly or indirectly
4. You cannot INITIATE force against anyone for any reason.
Arkonbey implies that if anybody could do anything they want with their land, anarchy would result. Remember that what you can do with your land cannot harm your neighbors land. This is a self-check on abuse, rather than the untold number of current laws and loopholes we have currently.
He is also concerned about gouging if snow removal is privatized. My friend, gouging occurs when you have an arbitrary monopoly (ie, govt agency) that prevents competition. If snow removal were privatized, you would have options of doing it yourself, hiring the lowest bidder, forming a collective to pool resources, etc.
At the end of the day, there will always be laws. The question is whether you want a small number of easy to understand laws, or hundreds of thousands of hard to understand laws filled with exceptions, loopholes, and contradictions. Libertarians would like a return to the constitution for the basic set of laws.
1 You own property (your land, your person, your stuff), and you get to do with it as you please.
2. You can not tell/force/control what someone else does with their property.
3. You cannot steal or harm other people's property, directly or indirectly
4. You cannot INITIATE force against anyone for any reason.
Arkonbey implies that if anybody could do anything they want with their land, anarchy would result. Remember that what you can do with your land cannot harm your neighbors land. This is a self-check on abuse, rather than the untold number of current laws and loopholes we have currently.
He is also concerned about gouging if snow removal is privatized. My friend, gouging occurs when you have an arbitrary monopoly (ie, govt agency) that prevents competition. If snow removal were privatized, you would have options of doing it yourself, hiring the lowest bidder, forming a collective to pool resources, etc.
At the end of the day, there will always be laws. The question is whether you want a small number of easy to understand laws, or hundreds of thousands of hard to understand laws filled with exceptions, loopholes, and contradictions. Libertarians would like a return to the constitution for the basic set of laws.
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Whether talking about republicans, democrats, libertarians, liberalism, conservatism, etc; you'll never get two people to agree on exactly everything.
However, when people like myself say "I'm a libertarian", what I mean is that I want this country to return to the original intent of the constitution. Jefferson, Madison, etc were some very smart guys who setup our government with LIBERTY as their foremost principle. The constitution and the bill of rights were specifically designed to prevent the state of affairs that we have today. In the last 50, 100 years politicians in this country have eroded the constitution bit by bit.
Each person who calls themselves a libertarian has their own pet peeves, and has read their own version of history.
For many of us the problem is that the United States has been engaged in a number of 'wars', yet the last time Congress officially and legally declared War was in 1941. Today, not only are we in an undeclared War, but a PREEMPTIVE war. Whether or no this war is unpopular or winning is irrelevant. Our presidents are trying to act more and more like a King or Dictator, and that must stop.
The 10th ammendment says "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people." This was to prevent the FEDERAL government from gaining too much power, which today many of us feel it has.
Please don't think that libertarianism means "no government". It means "return to the constitution".