We've been arguing liberty vs addiction recently, and my own latest comment is:
Libertarian laissez-faire needs to mean more than simply standing aside and watching the rich and powerful cock it up for everyone. Paradoxically, libertarianism implies some kind of rule-setting and limitation of power.
Does that seem reasonable?
2 comments:
It's tricky. I wonder whether "libertarianism" was coined mainly because "liberalism" was hijacked to describe American quasi-socialists.
Of course you need rules. Society was different in small groups, since behaviour was controlled by peer pressure.
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