Libertarian Dilemmas

[JuliaL]

What if your neighbor owns a nuclear bomb. Presently it's not harming anyone. But it does have a giant red button that if pushed would ignite the bomb destroying everything nearby. The neighbor promises never to push it but perhaps the neighbor might hit the bottom accidentally. Would it be wrong under libertarianism to forcefully take away the bomb because it poses a risk?

I am not a libertarian. I assist the peacekeeping authorities in their immediate removal of the threat of communal plasmatization. We celebrate.

What if somebody does not like seeing your house? They think your house is ugly and they don't like to think about it. Them seeing your house puts a thought in their mind that they don't like.

Tough.
I am not a libertarian. They don't like it, they can move to Montana and see how they get along with others like themselves.

If your 8 year kid does not like living with you (perhaps he doesn't like the cereal you buy), would it be violating his right to self to deny him leaving the house? If not, why so?

I am not a libertarian. My responsibility for the kid's health and safety trumps any rights he alleges.

How does something become one's property? Say you have a future space explorer arriving at an uninhabited planet? Is the whole planet automatically his? Is it just the part he stepped on?

I am not a libertarian. The alien only gets property rights if it is of a denomination which believes that it is bringing true faith to the local heathens. And if they have the appropriate superior weaponry to enforce that belief.

And say that this planet has non intelligent life (imagine earth without humans), is he taking property away from the animals? Do animals not have a right to property? Why not?

I am not a libertarian. Self awareness rules because it makes self preservation easier. Non-self aware life cannot conceive of property or property rights and so has none. Self aware life will have to contest the matter using the superior weaponry taken from the invading aliens.

And can we legitimately own animals? We just scooped them up from the wild and put them in zoos. We bulldoze their rain forests. Why aren't these violations of the two principles of libertarianism?

I am not a libertarian. Legitimate from whose perspective? That of the self aware local population who has just taken the superior weaponry from the invading aliens and reduced them to grovelling beggars? The answer in that case is No!