Message from @vngxl

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2019-09-10 00:37:26 UTC  

despite media perception and what religious 'leaders' might tell you

2019-09-10 00:37:31 UTC  

principles without an anchor

2019-09-10 00:37:53 UTC  

Essentially. For what will we conserve believing that there is only death that awaits us?

2019-09-10 00:38:09 UTC  

^^^^^^

2019-09-10 00:38:09 UTC  

We will conserve...nothing. I guess.

2019-09-10 00:39:51 UTC  

Wait, so you only conserve for the promise of a big payout in the afterlife?

2019-09-10 00:40:06 UTC  

Nope

2019-09-10 00:40:19 UTC  

The main fault I find in libertarianism is that it focuses too much on the individual

2019-09-10 00:40:28 UTC  

Society doesn't exist without families

2019-09-10 00:40:30 UTC  

You conserve your life eternally through Christ.

2019-09-10 00:40:44 UTC  

you can be secular for something to leave behind for _someone_

2019-09-10 00:40:57 UTC  

libertarianism assumes that person virtue is of no importance

2019-09-10 00:40:59 UTC  

so far, the only real way to focus that is to have children of your own

2019-09-10 00:41:12 UTC  

It's not a payout in the monetary sense, or something.

2019-09-10 00:41:26 UTC  

Families have to come from the social realm. Libertarianism focuses on the individual in a political sense

2019-09-10 00:41:36 UTC  

It's still external rewards

2019-09-10 00:41:57 UTC  

@vngxl what if you conserve all your life, but never heard of Christ?

2019-09-10 00:42:00 UTC  

but that's the thing, where does libertarianism come in with a, I guess, cure, in the societal realm?

2019-09-10 00:42:11 UTC  

Where does Capitalism?

2019-09-10 00:42:27 UTC  

You have to clarify your question a bit.

2019-09-10 00:42:36 UTC  

You mean like uncontacted tribes?

2019-09-10 00:42:40 UTC  

What does Christianity say about running a successful business

2019-09-10 00:42:40 UTC  

So they're two legs to a table; what would be the third and fourth?

2019-09-10 00:42:42 UTC  

what I'm saying is that libertarianism seeks to limit the state completely, while failing to understand without a morally virtuous populace, all libertarianism will produce is a decade of anarchy followed by a century of tyranny

2019-09-10 00:43:16 UTC  

What do you mean by limit the state "completely"?

2019-09-10 00:43:41 UTC  

to prevent it from being capable of tyranny

2019-09-10 00:43:48 UTC  

If anything, libertarianism opens the door for social conservatives to shine, no?

2019-09-10 00:43:54 UTC  

You can't do that

2019-09-10 00:44:08 UTC  

right, that's what I'm saying

2019-09-10 00:44:09 UTC  

You can limit tyrannical capacity, but you can never eliminate it

2019-09-10 00:44:27 UTC  

Libertarianism is based on that principle

2019-09-10 00:45:14 UTC  

So long as you're still allowing a government you are creating an easy target for power accumulation and centralization, which is why vigilance must be a focus

2019-09-10 00:45:59 UTC  

But it's not a social plan, that has to be decided by communities

2019-09-10 00:46:34 UTC  

Which is where you can make your social ideology shine, if it works as well as you suggest
That's a general "you" fwiw

2019-09-10 00:47:28 UTC  

Hm?

2019-09-10 00:50:27 UTC  

Are you thinking of a Libertarian government?

2019-09-10 00:50:40 UTC  

Because a libertarian government could be one of several configurations

2019-09-10 00:52:17 UTC  

You could have one of several kinds of democracy, there's also theories that emerge from prior authoritarian rule, not unlike commieshit (though I'm not a fan of those)
You dont even necessarily have to make franchise universal. It all depends on how you wanna argue rights really

2019-09-10 00:53:39 UTC  

^^^^

2019-09-10 00:53:44 UTC  

I see that said a lot but I think it mostly comes down to the libertarian answer being "people will have to figure it out"

2019-09-10 00:54:04 UTC  

Like do I know the exact solution every community will take to a given issue? No. Some of them will even make bad decisions