honestly I've seen liberals using the libertarian argument so it's hard to distinguish labels.
Quote:If you take some important beliefs that people think libertarians and liberals share, you find that there is a world of difference in them. For example gay marriage. The left normally applauds the government 'allowing' more people to marry. For a libertarian the government shouldn't be involved in marriage in the first place. Not only should gay people not get marriage certificates, nobody should. Much less there shouldn't be any social advantage to being married than to being single. The government shouldn't be involved at all. There is a world of difference in that.I fundamentally disagree with this - A certificate is super important because it constitutes evidence in case of divorce or any other legal procedure, otherwise your contract will be treated as void - What next - Will people be allowed to marry without signing papers? Why not abolish marriage altogether then? I think there should be advantages in being married depending on the socio-economic conjuncture - If there's a lack of young workforce the State should promote natality and give benefits to couples, and if there's too many people the government should simply raise taxes on married couples with more kids. The reason why you can marry in the first place is because the government allows it - Certainly there is a law saying that you can marry and how marriage contracts work, are signed, the legal form of the contract and how many witnesses are necessary, who can marry who (for example minors can't marry) - Everything is subjected to regulation and marriage or other forms of contract are not an exception, since the State has interests to get parties to sign contracts, at the very least because it fulfils people's freedoms.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
