If you are a Libertarian and hold liberty as your core value, why do you not believe in universal healthcare? Nothing impacts liberty more than sickness and death.
If you are a Libertarian and hold liberty as your core value, why do you not believe in universal healthcare? Nothing impacts liberty more than sickness and death.
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It’s not really about liberty, it’s about freedom from taxes and consequences. They don’t get far enough in the reasoning to understand that they would benefit.
But I'm 20 and healthy, why should I have to pay for healthcare for mrs. sickey over there? Did she even try being born without a chronic illness? Doubt it.
Because eventually you will be old and sick. It’s short sighted not to consider that.
Don't forget lowering the age of consent
This is anti-libertarian, imo. Libertarianism does revolve around upholding contracts made through individual consent. For this to work, one must be able to give concious and uncoerced consent. Lowering the age of consent does not support this — as it stands, the age of legal consent is, arguably, too low. Being able to provide consent comes with maturity.
Libertarianism is just values free Capitalism.
Capitalism has always been values free
...and it co-opts and usurps other value systems.
NAP is a value.
It's a theory that in reality already mostly doesn't exist. You can hire a range of body guards, personal security people, bounty hunters, and self-proclaimed bad asses to fuck people up.
...the more money you have the more connected you are, the more stuff like that you can do.
NAP is a theory that requires people with money "respect" rather than chilling in the forts they've already built in this system, let alone a more free market one.
NAP is a pipedream Libertarians have circle jerks about but like most of their theories would be utter vaporware in practice.
What would happen in the 5 most murderous states in Mexico, or in Haiti, if everyone there had a machine gun?
Would the rich and powerful carry themselves with as much swagger as they do now?
This is all besides the point. Libertarianism is values free Capitalism, and NAP is a pipedream.
Capitalism usurps all values other than profit. It's toxic.
Is libertarianism synonymous with capitalism?
What values are devoid of profiting?
If say, a socialist argued that the average Russian in 1960 was better off than in 1880, and while technology played a positive role, so did the political system, then wt:thon would be arguing that socialism—at least that variant—has profited the average Russian more than monarchy—at least that variant.
and please answer the questions in my previous post, regardless on how it's probable that neither of us have enough information and knowledge to answer something so hypothetical, with a great amount of authority.
I'm not here for you. I was here for the original topic.
Very well. I'll answer them.
They aren't the same;
80 years after, the average Russian probably profited more;
and an armed population would probably be bad for gangsters and the cartels, and perhaps the rich and powerful.
It’s not really about liberty
Individual liberty is core to the philosophy of libertarianism.
it’s about freedom from taxes
This is a complicated issue, and it is not a cut and dry opinion of all libertarians to oppose all taxes in their entirety. A core idea in libertarianism is to avoid excessive government abuse of power — taxes are often viewed as one such abuse. Those that are more libertarian oriented, but are more favorable towards some types of taxes are, imo, more accurately referred to as Georgists, but it of course relies on exactly what taxes they support, and their rationale.
it’s about freedom from [...] consequences.
If you are referring to consequences from infringing on the freedoms of others, then that is not libertarian. Supporting the idea of liberty is to also support the liberty of others.