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A classical liberal would say that freedom consists in the right to choose your occupation and enjoy the fruits of your labor, exchanging one's earnings for foo
by Bostonian 3y ago
A classical liberal would say that freedom consists in the right to choose your occupation and enjoy the fruits of your labor, exchanging one's earnings for food, clothing, and shelter. Freedom is not the provision of all necessities by the state.
- potatopatch 3y agoA classical liberal would believe in the social contract. If society adds a chain then society has a debt. For example, a municipality doesn't need to provide a toilet to the extent that it doesn't have a problem with the freedom to not own one. If the municipality wants to achieve hygienic high density then it should pay its debts.
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- dabbledash 3y agoWhat does the state owe in exchange for banning murder? (I imagine the answer might be "protection from non-state violence." But then by analogy what they owe you in exchange for banning public defecation isn't public toilets, but an environment where there isn't shit laying around in public.)
- potatopatch 3y agoThe first exchange is as fair to the wild man as anyone else, property rights over land or something is I think where that topic goes.. If you had no reasonable way to acquire a toilet (like all of mankind until quite recently) would you choose to explode for the reassurance that the poo you step in is from dogs and wildlife? Earlier people apparently didn't choose extinction.
- gizmo686 3y agoThe article specifically addresses this point. The argument is that both public and private spaces are highly regulated, so having a space of your own is nessasary for freedeom. If society would let the homeless people do as they like in public spaces then this argument wouldn't hold. However, such a policy position also gets massive political backlash.