Posted on 08/07/2014 7:54:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If you would claim to be purely fiscal, or assert that “social issues” should never be government’s domain, I’d ask a simple question: would you have no problem with a movement to legalize pedophilia?
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We can be like Mexico! MORE drugs! More drug cartels! THAT'S the ticket!
ansell12 said...... “Nonsense, libertarianism is about being left wing except on economics.”
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Actually, one can easily see where libs are even wrong on economic issues as well. More often than not libertards are wetting themselves with glee over pro-dope laws in Colorado, and pointing to the huge tax revenues that legal marijuana generates.
The fact that more taxes leads to more spending which leads to bigger government does not escape liberaltarians. No, they relish it.
Nonsense, the abortion/contraception culture stems from the eugenics movement of the late 19th and early 20th century, Margaret Sanger was involved in the movement BEFORE the 16th Amendment was passed. The homosexual agenda got it's real start with the Kinsey Report in 1948.
>Yes, I think I see your point. Ending abortion is hard, and not really that important.<
Not really that important...It is to an unborn child about to be pulverized in the womb.
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Well said.
What don’t you understand?
And the number of Google search results aren't much of a gauge of anything. Googling conservative racist gets 13 million hits, so it must be six times truer, right?
Nice straw man you got there. (C) sure LOVE to equate (L) with NO gov’t, out of control drug use, etc. I’m still waiting for the Nazi flag to be hoisted.
I’ve NEVER seen any (L) espousing/endorsing NAMBLA type of actions. I suspect, as in any group, there are fringe elements and/or hoisting the banner in name only.
But, let’s take your example (child rape). Again, not that I’ve read/seen any (L) ‘allowing’ [as to their ‘too young to consent’ as one point], but in the age before the leviathan of the Nanny State, those in town took care of/disappeared their own problems. They also ran the anti-Const. pols out of town on a rail. Course, in these these ‘good ol’ days of yore’ these same people did some looking-down/actions upon those of mixed-couples, the Irish, the negro, the..., etc. It all was still considered ‘taking care of their own’, and didn’t require any gov’t to administer...when correct/proper.
Lastly, RE: morphine/etc. You mean, life went on ALL THOSE YEARS w/out the strong arm, and shoulder, of Uncle Sugar to make the ‘bad things’ disappear? Oh, wait, those things haven’t gone away? AND, the good those products did have been removed from the everyday use they used to enjoy? Instead of the Responsibility that Liberty/Freedom brought, We the People now must ask permission from the licensees (the Fed ‘approves’ drug XYZ, the licensed ‘doctor’ can Rx, and the licensed Rx can dispense) to ‘cure’ a headache, use for a toothache, temper pain from a wound (just a few examples of the uses of the ‘bad’ things from the recent past).
The reference to Prohibition is the classic example; as is the current WoD...because it’s STILL valid to show the problem with gov’t ‘solutions’. Boy, if you can’t see that distinction...
I don’t understand why that was directed to me.
Trisham was being sarcastic.
I am guessing that bimboeruption didn’t read the entire thread, but from his post, it was impossible for me to be sure.
” I’ve read the libertarian party platform.
Can’t find the part where it endorses
pedophilia. Maybe you can point it out.”
It comes up because more and more, Libertarians are against moral laws entirely. That is what this article was about. Moral laws.
“They overlook (perhaps purposely) the fact that laudanum, morphine and other opiates were also legally available without a prescription and abuse/addiction of these drugs was rampant. Funny how libertarians always seem to focus just on marijuana or Prohibition and ignore this. “
Well, most opiates that are legally available with a prescription today are still rampantly abused. So, what has prohibition done to change that?
Sure it is true, if someone is conservative they call themselves conservative, if they share some ideas with conservatives, but are liberal on social issues, then they call themselves libertarian.
We know what it means when someone announces they are libertarian on gay marriage etc., it means they are liberal on it.
Pinging GeronL. He’s had links before linking Libertarians to Pedophilia.
But look... Which group has more interest in outlawing pederasty? Conservatives who abhor it as a moral sin and social evil?
Or libertarians who claim it is morally evil, but feel the state has no right to involve itself in social issues.
“The Federal Government clearly does not have the enumerated powers to regulate drugs or sexual activity.”
Bingo. At least a few people around still remember that it’s a conservative, not just a libertarian, position to advocate for federal government to be limited to its enumerated powers.
The nanny-state Republicans hate libertarians so much they don’t realize they are heading in a direction that is worse than libertarianism. In order to spite libertarians, they want to abandon conservatism and leap headlong towards tyranny.
“Sure it is true, if someone is conservative they call themselves conservative, if they share some ideas with conservatives, but are liberal on social issues, then they call themselves libertarian.”
What someone calls themselves does not change the definition of words. If I call myself a giraffe, it doesn’t mean that giraffes are 35 year old white guys with average sized necks.
Sounds like it to me, too.
Ok,
So, by your definition, why is murder against the law? Or for that matter, theft? Are they not morals being forced on by the State?
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