Message from @Beemann

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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

2019-09-10 00:54:34 UTC  

But I think it's important that, so long as fundamental principles aren't being violated, that people should be free to do dumb shit

2019-09-10 00:54:39 UTC  

And then pay for the consequences

2019-09-10 00:56:14 UTC  

People are prevented from particular solutions due to arbitrary law

2019-09-10 00:57:00 UTC  

People are free to rescind their rights on an individual basis no matter what

2019-09-10 00:57:28 UTC  

But the goal should be to restore a system under which states are separate and people have those rights

2019-09-10 00:57:39 UTC  

Or do you feel you have a better solution?

2019-09-10 00:58:37 UTC  

Both, in their own way. US States should regain their rights, nations shouldn't be shoved into collectives like the EU

2019-09-10 01:00:48 UTC  

You can enter a collective, you should not be forced into it

2019-09-10 01:02:39 UTC  

It's pretty clear that the EU is a series of slow creeping agreements designed to erode sovereignty, bolstered by economic threats

2019-09-10 01:03:03 UTC  

Are we going to descend into spergery here?

2019-09-10 01:04:38 UTC  

I'm using nation to refer to the state https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(polity)