L.A. Liberty

jlucasgreensae replied to your post: On Taxes and Priorities

You are ruining libertarianism for me. Please stop with this utopian ideal and return to the world we inhabit. Taxes are a part of our social contract, so work with the paradigm of reforming them rather than pretending they are violations of rights.

I didn’t “enter a contract” just for being born. Much less one that demands my subservience and property for unrequested services rendered inefficiently.

And if your alleged flirtations with libertarianism are so fragile as to be ruined by simple logic and reason, I’m afraid your cause may already be lost (especially in context of some of your other posts and reblogs). I’ve offered steps to “work within the system” before, but it’s perhaps more important to understand the philosophy of liberty to better grasp its practical purpose and visualize its ideological goal. Libertarianism, through the principles of self-ownership and non-aggression, is both consequential in its understanding what is efficient and best for most individuals and deontological in advocating what is morally right. A Libertarian is no utopian.

But if cheese, tomatoes, and dough ruin pizza for you, it’s doubtful pizza ever stood a chance.

Posted June 24, 2011 at 6:29am in jlucasgreensae ∆ riposte huskerred | comments || home