HGCC
Well-Known Member
But what happens when your free will runs into someone else's.
Take something like pollution. You have various business entities that want to pollute as much as they want in the interest of earning the greatest profit. Economic libertarians. So then they catch a river on fire (happened) because so much shit got dumped in it. So once that's all messed up, chemicals are in the drinking water, dead fish, etc..what do you do? They wanted freedom to do what they please, but I want the freedom to not have 3 eyed fish or whatever. Who and how do people get held responsible. Or, to stick with silly examples, I want to build a giant dildo shaped tower but it blocks someone's view. They have a right and I have a right, what happens when the two meet.
Another aspect, freedoms and rights only exist to the extent they can defended.
They are functions of being part of a state powerful enough to uphold them. Trying to wild west it and say you need to defend yourself misses the fact that there will always be someone stronger and there are those without the means to do that (like a handicapped 8 year old that's family died when an unregulated mine collapsed.
Take something like pollution. You have various business entities that want to pollute as much as they want in the interest of earning the greatest profit. Economic libertarians. So then they catch a river on fire (happened) because so much shit got dumped in it. So once that's all messed up, chemicals are in the drinking water, dead fish, etc..what do you do? They wanted freedom to do what they please, but I want the freedom to not have 3 eyed fish or whatever. Who and how do people get held responsible. Or, to stick with silly examples, I want to build a giant dildo shaped tower but it blocks someone's view. They have a right and I have a right, what happens when the two meet.
Another aspect, freedoms and rights only exist to the extent they can defended.
They are functions of being part of a state powerful enough to uphold them. Trying to wild west it and say you need to defend yourself misses the fact that there will always be someone stronger and there are those without the means to do that (like a handicapped 8 year old that's family died when an unregulated mine collapsed.