You see how low the level of discourse gets when you have people implying that anyone who espouses liberterian beliefs must be a substance abuser, when all that is being put forth is a belief in personal responsibility with no government mommy to keep the bubble they live in intact.
Getting out there and assuming the responsibility for one’s own self and family is an old concept, I know, but it worked a lot longer and better than socialism-look at the Soviet Union-most of those people have no idea how to be responsible, really work for a living, the place is rife with crime and many of the people have become so weak over 70 years of communism that they want Putin to bring back their mommy government again so they can live in wretched, free tenements and be told what to eat and where to work...
And will someone tell me why government is involved in marriage in the first place? If you are a man and woman, two of each, a tribe of pygmies, whatever, you can go to the courthouse and get a license for a civil partnership, but most churches are not going to perform a marriage ceremony for you if they have a choice. I doubt that lawyers care which is which, as long as there can be a legal settlement if the thing dissolves. A civil contract is just that-not a marriage. “Marriage” is a religious ceremony performed by a church official between a man and woman before God, and there is no reason for any government to have anything to do with it at all.
I sent my child to private school, but-if you look at your property tax bill, you will likely find that most of it is taxes levied by your local school district, and outrageous at that. In a libertarian system, the government would get out of the public education business and lower that number drastically, not to mention getting rid of taxes for all the nanny welfare services that working people who pay taxes get no benefit from. But that would mean that all parents would have to assume responsibility for the education and behavior of their children-oh, the horror...
A marriage qualifies you for spousal Social Security benefits.
Reasonable people are... well... reasonable. They can agree to disagree and go their separate ways.
The NIMBY's and Nanny's are easy to spot as they devolve the quickest into name calling and making inflammatory statements.