(September 21, 2013 at 7:35 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: A lot of libertarians I've met argue effectively for the right to let others starve.
Frankly, I think that is a load of shit. Starvation does not even exist in any relatively free market.
Look at the list of economically free countries, with the lowest socialism:
http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Switzerland. Nobody is dying of starvation there, it's just not an issue. As long as there is a at least a semi-free market, then people do not involuntarily starve. It's like saying "Libertarians don't support government fruit programs, so they think it's okay for people to get scurvy" well if there was any sort of free market, people would buy fruit- again, it's just not an issue.
Conversely we can look at the countries with the lowest economic freedom, and see if they are free from starvation:
The lowest: North Korea - we've all heard of the rampant starvation in NK, some estimate 10% of all people die of starvation.
The only freedom, is freedom from illusion.
