Monday 16 May 2011

For example, it never occurs to the conservative that there is any doubt that he owns the property he has bought and paid for, or that he isn't free to marry and found a family, or bring up his children as he wishes. These are absolute things, which existed before there ever was a state, and the state shouldn't encroach on them. It should also defend them against outside threats, or it has no 'right' or rather reason, to exist.

But the liberal libertarian ( who is in fact a power-worshipper who thinks the state is the embodiment of his own human goodness) wants there to be a 'right' , issued by the state, to private property , to marry, to found a family. He also often speaks of a bizarre thing called a 'right to life' which is mainly an excuse to ban the death penalty for murderers, and certainly doesn't save unborn babies from selfish abortions.

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