To my knowledge no other founding document mentions this. Why are we fucking it up so bad? It's so simple, leave people alone and do as you please.
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Originally posted by tumbling.dice View PostTo my knowledge no other founding document mentions this. Why are we fucking it up so bad? It's so simple, leave people alone and do as you please.
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Originally posted by eggsprog View Post
Anything really - driving on the wrong side of the road, putting up a billboard sized photo of my dick on my front lawn. You know, normal stuff.
EDIT: I mean the dick/billboard thing, not driving on the wrong side of the road.
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But more seriously, I think that is really a fundamental issue in human society. If I have the right to do whatever I want, then I should be able to walk up to someone and murder them, but obviously this violates their desire/right to not be murdered (I mean, I assume they'd prefer not to be).
Now obviously that is an extreme example, but it is a core issue with a pure libertarian ideology, in my opinion. Purely theoretical, because I've not actually met a libertarian who argues that there should be absolutely no constraints on human behaviour.
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Life, Liberty, and Property was what it was supposed to be. Thomas Jefferson wanted it that way.
Changing Property to Pursuit of Happiness was a grave mistake in my opinion. Now, we have a bunch of commies who don’t believe in property, and think living on the dole (from the property of others) is a pursuit of happiness.
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Originally posted by eggsprog View PostBut more seriously, I think that is really a fundamental issue in human society. If I have the right to do whatever I want, then I should be able to walk up to someone and murder them, but obviously this violates their desire/right to not be murdered (I mean, I assume they'd prefer not to be).
Now obviously that is an extreme example, but it is a core issue with a pure libertarian ideology, in my opinion. Purely theoretical, because I've not actually met a libertarian who argues that there should be absolutely no constraints on human behaviour.
Taxes should pay for specific things, like a gasoline tax paying only what it takes to maintain highways for example. Any left over should be deducted from the next years tax burden.
And I never said that you should have the right to do whatever you want. You should have whatever rights that don't stop others from having those same rights.
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Originally posted by everything bagel View PostRemember, it's the pursuit that's protected. It doesn't mean everyone is going to be happy. Lot of miserable people out there
Hypothetically speaking, of course. I hear these things happen.
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