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>If you own your body => you own your blood => you can do whatever the hell you want with it > If you own your body you own your hands => you can do whatever yo
by zimablue 8y ago
>If you own your body => you own your blood => you can do whatever the hell you want with it
> If you own your body you own your hands => you can do whatever you want (murder) with them
> That argument doesn't stand, I'm saying you can do anything you want with them that doesn't harm anyone else
> Interesting, what's your definition of harming someone? If I control all the mechanisms of law and create a situation where every other person is effectively my slave (eg. I own all the land), then where in your libertarian philosophy do we fight that? Or do we just accept it?
I'm telling you with love in my heart, that taking a simplified libertarian view of everything is an intellectual trap and the world is way, way more complicated economically and philosophically than can be managed through libertarianism.
In the same way that gender politics gets disproportionate airtime because 1. it's very feel-good for groups of girls to feel united over and get a thrill of moral superiority from, it works socially 2. it's something for the elites/rich people to focus on that isn't redistribution or reform
Libertarianism gets press because: 1. People love having a single rule for things, because it makes them feel clever and right often without having to do any actual thinking. And it's clever on light inspection and dumb on deeper thinking 2. see gender politics 2.