RE: Libertarian left and right
October 12, 2011 at 8:02 pm
(This post was last modified: October 12, 2011 at 8:03 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
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I seem to be in the same area as the Dahli Lama and Ghandi. I feel I'm in good company. Though this doesn't answer my question (I've taken this test before.)
My question concerns the idea of a ' left' and 'right' libertarian - libertarian being the idea that government should be minimized, but not eliminated (that would be an anarchist).
I've always viewed this as being the standard libertarian position in politics with differences mostly having to do with what this minimalist government's exact responsibilities are to its citizens.
These usually include things like police, fire, disaster relief, military, and judicial applications but just about everything else to be left to the free market.
What I thought was unusual was the idea of a 'left wing" and "right wing" libertarian and I was wondering what the basic ideaology would be that would differientiate between these two sorts of libertarians.
According to your compass, this would put all libertarians squarely toward the right-bottom of the compass regardless of the minor quibbles.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
