> ...my big gripe with hardline “big-L” Libertarianism is that it seems to pretend these trade-offs don’t exist and that “freedom” is some sort of thing you can

> ...my big gripe with hardline “big-L” Libertarianism is that it seems to pretend these trade-offs don’t exist and that “freedom” is some sort of thing you can just assign a number to. This statement would not pass the Ideological Turing Test [1]. Freedom is doing what one wants as long as it does not impinge on the ability of others to do the same; "live and let live". The grey areas and trade-offs live in interpreting Golden Rule [2] violations. Violations implemented to further The Greater Good [3] also complicate matters. Each political preference, be it progressive, conservative, or libertarian, tends to apply the Precautionary Principle [4] to what they view as ruinous behavior (oppression/exploitation, individual decadence, and government overreach respectively). Each group is blind to their own application of the Precautionary Principle that different outgroups view as a Golden Rule violation. [1] https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/06/the_ideological.html https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/06/the_ideological.htm... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle