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To: bobzeetwin
Who's the moron. Your own words back to you:

I don’t want Goverment dictating what I can, and cannot watch.

Freedom means you have the right to do what you want, even if it is short-sighted and stupid.

Are you denying that some people like watching child porn? Or are you saying that your libertarian views don't extend to them?

In other words, do you presume to be the line drawer on morality?

73 posted on 05/01/2012 7:50:51 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: bobzeetwin; fwdude
Are you denying that some people like watching child porn? Or are you saying that your libertarian views don't extend to them?

The pure libertarian view as I’ve always understood it, is that we all have unlimited rights to live and do as we choose as free and responsible adults, fully responsible and accountable for our own personal actions and decision, both positive and negative up until the point that my or your right to live as we choose and our actions infringes upon my or your or someone else’s right to do the very same.

A child; victimized and raped and assaulted and filmed in a porno flick is having their rights and most basic human dignity violated and being a child, is not at all capable of freely consenting to such activity. That’s what makes it a crime to make and a crime to knowingly purchase and watch and I think most libertarians agree.

There might be a few very fringe and extreme and very sick and misguided individuals who say Kiddie porn is OK but they certainly don’t represent most Libertarians or “libertarians” i.e. conservatives with a strong libertarian leaning.

A libertarian might also make the point that if I hire a worker and that worker is a mentally competent and consenting adult and is perfectly agreeable to working for me for $2.00 an hour and without health insurance, what business is of the government to force me to pay minimum wage and provide health insurance and force the worker to accept that arrangement? If on the other hand, if I see you walking down the street, hit you on the head to the point of unconsciousness and brutally force you to work for me for whatever pay or for no pay and under what ever conditions I dictate without giving you any choice to freely walk away, then that’s slavery and that’s a crime.

You might choose to not see the difference, but it is there.

76 posted on 05/01/2012 1:41:45 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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