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>viewing it a totalitarian control as human breath expeals CO2 so if the government can regulate it then there are no limits on government at all. "If the gubm

>viewing it a totalitarian control as human breath expeals CO2 so if the government can regulate it then there are no limits on government at all. "If the gubmit can tell multinational corps not to pull oil out of the ground, they can make me hold my breath! It produces the same molecule!" Libertarian philosophy in a nutshell.

bcrosby95 4y ago
Your post made me wonder what libertarians think about things like llcs and corporations - the legal shields they provide are a massive government subsidy.
- corrral 4y ago
  Left-libertarians often think they shouldn't be A Thing, since they're extensions of state power and, besides, left-libertarians are more concerned with large concentrations of power per se than whether those concentrations happen to be called governments. Your average common-on-the-Internet right-libertarian usually hand-waves away how they're somehow fine and part of the "natural" (I cannot roll my eyes hard enough, in case you couldn't tell) free market. Some of the softer right-libertarians (bleeding over into folks who'd likely style themselves "classical liberals" rather than libertarians) aren't as hard-line and rigid, so don't really have the dilemma to begin with, but they're much less vocal on the Internet, probably in part because they disagree with the average person a lot less than the former sort does, so it just doesn't come up as much.
- int_19h 4y ago
  Libertarians are not a hivemind. I mean, for starters, you'll have to clarify if you mean right-wing or left-wing libertarians. Speaking for myself, as a left-wing libertarian, I think that corporations, being an artificial creation of society, can come with whatever strings society deems suitable to attach to that privilege - provided that they're the same for everyone.
phpisthebest 4y ago
That is hardly the argument but it is clear you do not want to have a substantive discussion so there is little point wasting my time explaining it

bcrosby95 4y ago

Your post made me wonder what libertarians think about things like llcs and corporations - the legal shields they provide are a massive government subsidy.

corrral 4y ago
Left-libertarians often think they shouldn't be A Thing, since they're extensions of state power and, besides, left-libertarians are more concerned with large concentrations of power per se than whether those concentrations happen to be called governments. Your average common-on-the-Internet right-libertarian usually hand-waves away how they're somehow fine and part of the "natural" (I cannot roll my eyes hard enough, in case you couldn't tell) free market. Some of the softer right-libertarians (bleeding over into folks who'd likely style themselves "classical liberals" rather than libertarians) aren't as hard-line and rigid, so don't really have the dilemma to begin with, but they're much less vocal on the Internet, probably in part because they disagree with the average person a lot less than the former sort does, so it just doesn't come up as much.
int_19h 4y ago
Libertarians are not a hivemind. I mean, for starters, you'll have to clarify if you mean right-wing or left-wing libertarians. Speaking for myself, as a left-wing libertarian, I think that corporations, being an artificial creation of society, can come with whatever strings society deems suitable to attach to that privilege - provided that they're the same for everyone.

phpisthebest 4y ago

That is hardly the argument but it is clear you do not want to have a substantive discussion so there is little point wasting my time explaining it