RE: The Libertarian Utopia
December 28, 2013 at 9:15 pm
(This post was last modified: December 28, 2013 at 9:21 pm by Darth.)
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/No_True_Scotsman
It's not a no true scotsman fallacy to state things like "no true christian would worship satan" or "no true Australian is actually a ravenous space beast from pluto" (I demanded to see our last prime ministers birth certificate because of suspicions about this btw).
Libertarianism is focused on negative rights/liberties. A libertarian can argue for a position that robs you of some of those rights sure, but to say that it's a libertarian argument is absurd. It would be no true scotsman fallacy to say "true libertarians can't argue for it", not to say, as tiberius did (paraphrasing) "no you really can't make a libertarian argument for it"
Strict constitutionality =/= libertarianism (though your constitution, as your president whinged, is "a charter of *negative liberties"). Lots of libertarians aren't fans of the 16th. It being on the constitution didn't make the 18th amendment jive with libertarian principles…
It does, in regards to the state doing it at least…
*mostly
It's not a no true scotsman fallacy to state things like "no true christian would worship satan" or "no true Australian is actually a ravenous space beast from pluto" (I demanded to see our last prime ministers birth certificate because of suspicions about this btw).
Libertarianism is focused on negative rights/liberties. A libertarian can argue for a position that robs you of some of those rights sure, but to say that it's a libertarian argument is absurd. It would be no true scotsman fallacy to say "true libertarians can't argue for it", not to say, as tiberius did (paraphrasing) "no you really can't make a libertarian argument for it"
Strict constitutionality =/= libertarianism (though your constitution, as your president whinged, is "a charter of *negative liberties"). Lots of libertarians aren't fans of the 16th. It being on the constitution didn't make the 18th amendment jive with libertarian principles…
It does, in regards to the state doing it at least…
*mostly
Nemo me impune lacessit.
