“One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a Libertarianish right. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. That is not how traditional conservatives view the world. There is no such society that I’m aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture.”Of course the guy who said this favors SOPA.
That’s a pretty damning statement of his personal view of things. L(l)ibertarians I have known have all felt that the “bedroom” was a place for consenting adults, period - some believe that not to be true. Is he one of those people? I’m not saying that anyone should get special rights depending on whom they choose as a partner, just that if anyone decides to do that I don’t need to treat them as second-class citizens, either.
I have the right to be “left alone” only as long as I’m not violating someone else’s rights with my actions. Society has the right to hold me accountable for actions which interfere with others who come in contact with me - libertarians would never tell you otherwise. We ALL have a right to protect ourselves and those we care about from those among us who wish us harm.
[If anyone believes homosexuality to be religiously or morally wrong then it does not then become a person’s duty to then treat them disrespectfully or with malice. People are supposed to be treated as they would want to be treated in regards to all of “God’s children” while at the same time protecting the innocent and vulnerable from those who wish to do them harm in any way. ALL JMHO.]