Then just like you’re complicate in a crime when you watch someone murder or rape someone else and can be held guilty because you didn’t try to stop it; so here.
It’s one thing to mind your business when what someone is doing isn’t harming anyone or any thing else. But there are laws against abusing animals. This isn’t a matter of *getting the government involved* as in creating more of a nanny state by having it pass regulations. This is putting a stop to something that’s WRONG.
If that’s an example of libertarian thinking, people can do what they want on their own property, nobody can tell me what to do, etc. then that builds the best case I’ve seen yet against libertarianism and of why libertarianism would destroy this country. If you won’t do anything to prevent wrong, well, there’s no basis at all to complain when you watch a situation like that.
Neglect is abuse; slaughterhouses are not.