I am just saying that the “leaders” of libertarianism do not even agree on the issues, let alone the rest of us.
Meaning “self-ownership” is misleading or false because people don’t have individual sovereignty ?
I think the way they quoted was a dead giveaway - so distinctive.
lol, congratulations you found a link between me and my ex-roomate.
Wait. That’s true. Indented italics. How does one do that ? I only use the plain text editor and add all tags myself. I’m guessing that the html editor has some built-in quoting styles or something ?
Yup.
How does one do that ? I only use the plain text editor and add all tags myself. I’m guessing that the html editor has some built-in quoting styles or something ?
You can do a regular quote-tag (or use a quote button), the indentation/italics style is more akin to a journal or article.
singing It’s a small world after all!
Taking the argument of closed borders to its logical conclusions, why don’t the people that believe in it stop trading with everybody that is poorer than them?
Surely they are better of buying their stuff, and that’s most of what poor people buy, from people that make at least as much as them.
It’s a shame that doesn’t follow, otherwise you’d be correct.
It does.
The poor do benefit from an increase in the supply of labour.
Individual people may not benefit, but in general “the poor” do. Of course, we’re talking “open borders” in the libertarian sense - i.e. they have to actually be invited onto the property they’re coming onto.
In our current state of affairs, I believe that libertarians should treadly lightly on the “open borders” debate because we do not have true sovereignty over their own land – the government does. So, both sides of the debate are equally correct (or wrong, depending on how you want to look at it) – while will live under government.
Effectively, we libertarians are answering the question: “What should government be doing with the borders?” We will invariably get into a trap no matter what our answer is.
Personally, I am all for open borders. If you want the benefits of living along a coast, you deal with its protection.
Edginess? [8-)]