Comments on: Role of Government http://constrained.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/role-of-government/ We do the best we can with what we have Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:55:26 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: ralphrubenemmers http://constrained.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/role-of-government/#comment-156 ralphrubenemmers Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:50:33 +0000 http://constrained.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/role-of-government/#comment-156 Who guarantees our natural liberty? It doesn't seem very natural to me. It's easy to be libertarian in the USA, we have to test our beliefs in places like Somalia or Iraq to see what they are really worth. Violence is rational for most of the world, and was irrational for the young US republic. I hereby proclaim myself libertarian crusader and I suggest we keep growing fast enough so we can pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. Maybe the US really was a one-time event, with almost no vested interests, a natural beneficent to trade, a vast landmass, libertarian-minded hard-working protestants as a basis, and with a Europe across the sea providing the hardy individualists instead of intellectual elites with lofty theories. Who guarantees our natural liberty? It doesn’t seem very natural to me. It’s easy to be libertarian in the USA, we have to test our beliefs in places like Somalia or Iraq to see what they are really worth. Violence is rational for most of the world, and was irrational for the young US republic. I hereby proclaim myself libertarian crusader and I suggest we keep growing fast enough so we can pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Maybe the US really was a one-time event, with almost no vested interests, a natural beneficent to trade, a vast landmass, libertarian-minded hard-working protestants as a basis, and with a Europe across the sea providing the hardy individualists instead of intellectual elites with lofty theories.

]]> By: Stewart http://constrained.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/role-of-government/#comment-155 Stewart Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:04:30 +0000 http://constrained.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/role-of-government/#comment-155 That is why we have natural liberty and negative rights. That is why we have natural liberty and negative rights.

]]> By: Jason http://constrained.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/role-of-government/#comment-154 Jason Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:32:17 +0000 http://constrained.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/role-of-government/#comment-154 but then you would need to define freedom. some would argue (in VA currently) that they have the right to the freedom to be in any bar in the state without having to breathe smoke. I'd disagree and say they have the freedom to choose which bar to go to. loosely defined "freedom" leads to big government and the lack of the aforementioned freedom but then you would need to define freedom. some would argue (in VA currently) that they have the right to the freedom to be in any bar in the state without having to breathe smoke. I’d disagree and say they have the freedom to choose which bar to go to. loosely defined “freedom” leads to big government and the lack of the aforementioned freedom

]]> By: ralphrubenemmers http://constrained.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/role-of-government/#comment-153 ralphrubenemmers Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:55:51 +0000 http://constrained.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/role-of-government/#comment-153 minimal amount of force needed to preserve freedom minimal amount of force needed to preserve freedom

]]> By: Eli http://constrained.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/role-of-government/#comment-130 Eli Thu, 01 Feb 2007 04:15:07 +0000 http://constrained.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/role-of-government/#comment-130 Reserving the right to change my answer as I refine it, the role of government is to protect the life, liberty, and property of its citizens through violence or the threat of violence. Reserving the right to change my answer as I refine it, the role of government is to protect the life, liberty, and property of its citizens through violence or the threat of violence.

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