Intervention to stop genoicde & bloodshed

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@EvilSocialistFellow

I’d say my stance is more that it is justified is [sic: “if”] the coercion used against C is less than the coercion that would have been used against person B. If that makes sense.

It doesn’t. Remember, values are subjective. You cannot impose your subjective valuations onto person C. Only if person C himself subjectively valued action X (him “helping” B) more than action Y (him minding his own business, eating cake, or using the $ you would coerce out of him for his daughter’s cancer surgery), would action X be performed by C – not because you made that value comparison in his stead. Quit being a busybody and making decisions in other people’s stead.

Forcing people in the UK to pay taxes to fund a war does not amount to the rape, murder and torture that some people living under authoritarian regimes must put up with. Those are just my thoughts.

And they are wrong, as explained above.

I hear the claim being used from time to time against Libertarians that they do not account for the fact that it is in people’s ‘nature’ to monitor, intervene in and regulate interactions between other people. This is not necessarily a stance I agree with but a stance that makes me wonder what if… they are right.

I agree. The above claim about humanity is, unfortunately, true. In case you missed my recent posts in another thread:

https://forum.freecapitalists.org/t/minarchists-or-anarchists/18569/234
https://forum.freecapitalists.org/t/minarchists-or-anarchists/18569/240

That doesn’t make it logically consistent or right. Just unfortunate.