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Libertarianism

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Libertarianism
The belief that government policies should limit themselves to preventing harm, rather than promoting goodness. Libertarianism holds that people have the right to do whatever they wish provided that they do not prevent others from doing whatever they want. For example, a libertarian would oppose slavery (because it violates the rights of the slave) but would also oppose minimum wages (because they violate the employer's right to pay whatever the employee will take).
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True libertarianism is not cultural libertarianism," the philosopher Edward Feser wrote on the paleolibertarian website LewRockwell.
Are property rights enough? Should libertarians care about cultural ... by Reason
His rational optimism seems largely to consist of rejecting leftist and liberal concerns about poverty, the power of corporations, the dangers of climate change, and similar matters and (although he is not necessarily explicit in saying so) generally seems to come from the perspective of free market libertarianism.
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But it's crucial to see the ways in which a cultural libertarianism of the sort Gillespie and Welch describe is one that can tend naturally toward complacency, a willingness to accept an unfree world so long as we can find some freedom within it.
A Libertarian Moment? by John Schwenkler / www.Culture11.com
 
 
 
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