Originally Posted by
Faklon
Seems like a mild-liberal at most.
I want to understand what makes a libertarian, to me it sounds like a more pathetic word for anarchist that it is being abused by multiple fronts.
Libertarianism is the belief that the government should keep its nose out of our business and its hand out of our pocket. It is classical liberalism rather than modern liberalism. Arthur Schopenhauer today would be a libertarian :
Schopenhauer viewed the role of the state from a classical liberal perspective. He writes, in The World as Will and Representation:
The State is nothing more than an institution of protection, rendered necessary by the manifold attacks to which man is exposed, and which he is not able to ward off as an individual, but only in alliance with others. [This] protection [includes] the safeguarding of private right. But, as is usual in things human, the removal of one evil generally opens the way to a fresh one, [which requires] protection against the protection… This seems most completely attainable by dividing and separating from one another the threefold unity of protective power, the legislative, the judicative, and the executive, so that each is managed by others, and independently of the rest.
The USA was libertarian from its founding until 1930 and that is what made it a good place to live now America just sucks. Conflating libertarianism with anarchism is incorrect.
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