Difference between revisions of "Libertarianism Has Unbalanced Values/unbalanced"

[[Category:There Are Important Values Besides Liberty]]

[[Category:There Are Important Values Besides Liberty]]

[[Category:Four Freedoms]]

[[Category:Four Freedoms]]

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| text = We live in the richest societies in history.  We produce so many times more than past societies that we could abolish almost all poverty, as has been done in so many Scandinavian nations.  We are at the point where we can ask what ALL people should have.  All people should have the [[Four Freedoms]].  All people should have education, medical care, food, clothing, housing.  Who should be excepted and why?  Libertarians have no answer here: their obsession with property above all other values produces Procrustean solutions at best.  Libertarians have no ideological guidelines for balancing property with other values, no way to go beyond "I've got mine."

| text = We live in the richest societies in history.  We produce so many times more than past societies that we could abolish almost all poverty, as has been done in so many Scandinavian nations.  We are at the point where we can ask what ALL people should have.  All people should have the [[Four Freedoms]].  All people should have education, medical care, food, clothing, housing.  Who should be excepted and why?  Libertarians have no answer here: their obsession with property above all other values produces Procrustean solutions at best.  Libertarians have no ideological guidelines for balancing property with other values, no way to go beyond "I've got mine."

| cite = [[Mike Huben]], "{{Link |Libertarianism Has Unbalanced Values}}"

| cite = [[Mike Huben]], "{{Link |Libertarianism Has Unbalanced Values}}"

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