Libertarians want LIMITED government, not no government, Arshole. We want to get back to the vision of the Founders, where the main activities of government were to protect the citizen's life, liberty and property from being taken by force or fraud. You can make up your own facts and then shoot them down and then congratulate yourself, but you are wrong. Conservatives want to control the population just as much as the liberals. I believe in Freedom, which is why I am neither liberal or conservative.
And how's that working through the current system going for you? We haven't been a free country on over 100 years. How will changing the makeup on the clowns in power effect any real change? You are supporting a police state. Neither major party is going to change direction, the end result from either one is the same.
CuteOldGay, Tea Party and Ronald Reagan made a difference..........
Libertarian schools of thought differ over the degree to which the state should be reduced. Anarchists advocate complete elimination of the
state.
Minarchists advocate a state which is limited to protecting its citizens from aggression, theft, breach of contract, and fraud. Some libertarians go further, such as by supporting minimal public assistance for the poor.
[4] Additionally, some schools are supportive of private property rights in the ownership of unappropriated land and natural resources while others reject such private ownership and often support
common ownership instead.
[5][6][7] Another distinction can be made among libertarians who support private ownership and those that support common ownership of the
means of production; the former generally supporting a
capitalist economy, the latter a
libertarian socialist economic system. In some parts of the world, the term "libertarianism" is synonymous with
Left anarchism.
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Libertarians can broadly be characterized as holding four ethical views: consequentialism, deontological theories, contractarianism, and class-struggle normative beliefs. The main divide is between
consequentialist libertarianism—which is support for a large degree of "liberty" because it leads to favorable consequences, such as prosperity or efficiency—and
deontological libertarianism (also known as "rights-theorist libertarianism," "natural rights libertarianism," or "libertarian moralism"), which is a philosophy based on belief in moral
self-ownership and opposition to "
initiation of force" and fraud.[
citation needed] Others combine a hybrid of consequentialist and deontologist thinking.
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Full citation needed] Another view,
contractarian libertarianism, holds that any legitimate authority of government derives not from the consent of the governed, but from contract or mutual agreement,
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[13][14][
page needed] though this can be seen as reductible to consequentialism or deontologism depending on what grounds contracts are justified. Some Libertarian Socialists with backgrounds influenced by
Marxism reject deontological and consequential approaches and use normative
class-struggle methodologies rooted in Hegelian thought to justify
direct action in pursuit of liberty.
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