All of my arguments for freedom apply to the war on drugs,
prostitution, gay marriage, etc. And this is what separates you
conservatives from us libertarians. If someone is doing something or
there is some kind of association or exchange going on that has nothing
to do with me/isn’t hurting me or violating my rights, it’s not my
business.
Like you, I have personal, socially conservative feelings about a lot of
activities in which many people choose to engage. However, those feelings don’t give me the right to force
anyone to do, or not do, anything. Don’t you see how the sword of
force/coercion cuts both ways? If you argue for freedom in one case and
against it in another, you can’t preserve freedom.
Think about it. If a friend were on drugs (or was engaging in prostitution or gay marriage) and you got everyone
together for an ‘intervention.’ Afterward, your friend on drugs says
he’s going to continue taking drugs. What? You’re going to chain him
to the radiator in your basement? No. You wouldn’t/couldn’t. Yet the
govt can and does. Hmm….the govt gets its rights and power delegated to
it from me. And yet it can do things I can’t do. How did it get those
rights/that power? Answer that question and you‘ll begin to see how
we’re all accessories to the murder of freedom and the constitution.
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