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  • ...l rhetorical tool; as long as you don't start getting specific. Different people have different ideas of liberty, and can divide over those issues. The def ...oss the country, the cry "Liberty!" filled the air. But what liberty? Few people claim to be anti-liberty, but the word "liberty" has many meanings. Should
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  • ... in the world, or you think it is more important to preserve the rights of people who own property. You can hum and haw as much as you like about whether the
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  • ...r instance, that a store owner should be able to refuse to serve all black people because he doesn't like them. They often claim that the "free market" would ...e such. When it is pointed out that things were not so wonderful for black people or women, they tend to shrug this off. Non-whites and women apparently don'
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  • People want and need positive liberty. Some libertarians, such as [[Tyler Cowen]]
    3 KB (440 words) - 14:38, 22 December 2020
  • ...rtarian]] and [[Free Market|free market]] part of the thinking of ordinary people. Most libertarians have no idea how they are manipulated by this perversio
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  • ...s process, a technique employed consciously or unconsciously to direct the people. Gradually, as this process continues, the whole language becomes despoiled
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  • ...environment where wealth accumulates in the hands of an elite leaving most people in poverty, deeply vulnerable to the inevitable economic shocks that follow
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  • ... anthropology and sociology confirms the variation in ideas of rights that people call natural. ... if natural rights are simply individual desires, then there are plenty of people who desire to steal your property, rape your wife and murder your children.
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  • {{DES | des = [[R. J. Rummel]]'s term for "killing of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide and mass murder". It conve
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  • ... whatever they want. Some people have liberties to do some things. Other people have illiberties, are prohibited from doing other things. ...t?" We already have an existing state of liberty, a set of things various people are free or not free to do. Libertarians want a different set, that we co
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  • ...edom, but seldom define it well. Freedom is the practical ability to stop people from interfering with your activities. This is a positive, active, costly d ...ct because they are rooted in your ability to take coercive action to stop people from interfering with your activities. We create government to regulate the
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  • ... not coercive only because they are in favor of it. Sorry, aiming guns at people is coercive no matter what your justification. The NAP is sometimes presented as: "Don’t hit people, don’t take their stuff. The basic rule of all civilized societies." That
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  • ... We choose public [[government]] to perform our desired coercion, because people are too partial to their own interests to be trusted. | show=}}
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  • ...: at best we can get more accurate and intersubjective (meaning that other people make similar observations. Claims of observing objective reality by [[Obje
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  • ...as strong an epithet as libertarians have: but it doesn't bother us normal people who recognize that states are essential and beneficial. Even some libertar
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  • ...rm of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying it’s f ... doesn’t serve its proper end--to effect the safety and happiness of the people--it could be torn down and replaced with one that would. "The equal rights
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  • ...merable exceptions must be carved out to prevent conflict, to reflect what people actually care about and to keep enforcement costs down. A better topologic
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  • ...ollapse of society, thereby inevitably killing millions if not billions of people, is portrayed as a messiah figure rather than as a genocidal prick, which i
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