RE: Why Does Atheism and Left-Wing Politics Usually Go Together?
October 1, 2012 at 6:37 pm
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2012 at 6:39 pm by Tiberius.)
(October 1, 2012 at 5:01 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote:It makes no sense. Presuming the lifeguard represents a Libertarian government, or even a Libertarian society, at no point would such a government or society simply stand idly by and let people die. Libertarianism is about letting people make their own choices, not about abandoning all levels of protection in society.(October 1, 2012 at 4:35 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Oh look, another person who doesn't understand Libertarianism.
then please explain. for that is the image i have of almoust every european liberterian party.
In short, the only way that image makes any sense in the Libertarian political ideology is if every single drowned person had gone up to the lifeguard prior to drowning and said "I'm going to commit suicide in this pool; please don't try and save me." A Libertarian society would honour a person's wish to kill themselves, but would never simply watch as innocent people drowned.
