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Libertarians Are Not Our Friends
Posted on: July 25, 2022 at 08:02:40 CT
BH O'bonga MU
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"Let me state the argument against libertarianism, as clearly as possible. There are seven points that need to be made, pondered, and then remade.
Individualism, an ism, is a harsh and insane ideology and not the same thing as viewing individuals as human persons, created by God and made in His image. In truth there is much more to reality—which is multidimensional, variegated, and complex. Families, marriages, communities, schools, churches, and civil associations are, in fact, the bulwark of life—not isolated, atomistic individuals untethered to anything.
The market works and also at times, fails. We are citizens in nation states, not global individuals adrift and rootless. We are certainly more than contracting consumers.
Opposed to Natural Law as upheld and described in our Declaration of Independence, libertarians deny there are any self-evident truths, a Creator, or even inalienable rights.
The “harm principle” of John Stuart Mill upon which libertarianism rests, is a moral claim that demands a moral basis both for human flourishing and ethics, neither of which libertarianism provides.
“Conscription is slavery and taxation robbery,” according to Murray Rothbard, the ultimate and exemplar libertarian. Is that extreme? No Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, or Coast Guard? We would be, for all practical purposes, defenseless. And a principle of no taxes is not the same as limited government.
For a libertarian, virtue does not exist and cannot be coerced. Freedom does work, as Hayek thought, but surely [freedom] cannot be evaluated apart from the ends that it serves.
Facilitating the debauchery of society by eliminating any sense or definition of good character is, by definition, debased, and results in a form of narcissistic nihilism. There is nothing above the self. Think of Burning Man writ large and you can picture the result of libertarian rule or lack thereof. Would you want that?"
https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/22/libertarians-are-not-our-friends/
Individualism, an ism, is a harsh and insane ideology and not the same thing as viewing individuals as human persons, created by God and made in His image. In truth there is much more to reality—which is multidimensional, variegated, and complex. Families, marriages, communities, schools, churches, and civil associations are, in fact, the bulwark of life—not isolated, atomistic individuals untethered to anything.
The market works and also at times, fails. We are citizens in nation states, not global individuals adrift and rootless. We are certainly more than contracting consumers.
Opposed to Natural Law as upheld and described in our Declaration of Independence, libertarians deny there are any self-evident truths, a Creator, or even inalienable rights.
The “harm principle” of John Stuart Mill upon which libertarianism rests, is a moral claim that demands a moral basis both for human flourishing and ethics, neither of which libertarianism provides.
“Conscription is slavery and taxation robbery,” according to Murray Rothbard, the ultimate and exemplar libertarian. Is that extreme? No Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, or Coast Guard? We would be, for all practical purposes, defenseless. And a principle of no taxes is not the same as limited government.
For a libertarian, virtue does not exist and cannot be coerced. Freedom does work, as Hayek thought, but surely [freedom] cannot be evaluated apart from the ends that it serves.
Facilitating the debauchery of society by eliminating any sense or definition of good character is, by definition, debased, and results in a form of narcissistic nihilism. There is nothing above the self. Think of Burning Man writ large and you can picture the result of libertarian rule or lack thereof. Would you want that?"
https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/22/libertarians-are-not-our-friends/
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