We should not need laws to encourage us to do the right things.<\/p>\n
Libertarianism and classical liberalism depend on people not needing to be forced to do what is right for the community.<\/p>\n
Unlike modern progressives, social democrats, or other statists, we don\u2019t believe that the \u201cright things\u201d include dictating personal behaviors. Nor do we believe that hurting someone\u2019s feelings is equivalent to assault. You can do a lot of \u201cwrong things\u201d and be everything I despise personally. Not my business.<\/p>\n
But, your sovereign self, which I will always defend, doesn\u2019t include any right to put others at risk.<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019m my ideal world, we would not need speed limits, because you won\u2019t be stupid enough to drive 50 miles-per-hour in a suburban neighborhood or near a school. We would need a lot of regulations because companies would realize harming customers is bad for business.<\/p>\n Libertarians support the rule of law, contractual agreements, and local government. We believe states truly should be the laboratories of democracy, and people are free to move about the states.<\/p>\n Yet, I keep reading about \u201clibertarians\u201d protesting for the right to not shelter-in-place during the COVID-19 pandemic. They somehow want the \u201cright\u201d to put other people at risk for infection and worse.<\/p>\n Protesting businesses that won\u2019t admit customers without masks? I thought we believed in private business. Those businesses should have a right to tell customers to wear masks, use social distancing, and behave like part of a community.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t support draconian health and safety regulations, but the coronavirus isn\u2019t a normal situation. If we cannot be pragmatic and recognize that our rights have limits, then we don\u2019t deserve to be free.<\/p>\n Libertarianism cannot function as nihilism or Ayn Rand\u2019s objectivism. We need to demonstrate the reason we don\u2019t need to be regulated is that most people will do what is right, or at least keep to themselves and not harm others.<\/p>\n Do you own thing. In your own space.<\/p>\n Libertarianism and classical liberalism are being permanently damaged by loudmouths with no understanding that freedom comes with responsibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We should not need laws to encourage us to do the right things. Libertarianism and classical liberalism depend on people not needing to be forced…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"iawp_total_views":4,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49],"tags":[150,3,4,80,81,114,224],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-conservatism","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-trump","tag-freedom","tag-libertarian","tag-responsibility","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tameri.com\/almostclassical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/AC_Banner_Gray_1200x630.png?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfivL7-dF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/almostclassical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/almostclassical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/almostclassical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/almostclassical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/almostclassical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/almostclassical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/almostclassical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/almostclassical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/almostclassical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/almostclassical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/almostclassical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}