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bioemerl  ·  2991 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An essay on cultural change

Why do you find my worldview completely abhorrent?

I wouldn't really call myself a libertarian in the "everyone is always free to do whatever" or "government shouldn't exist.". Instead, I am more a "government should not be able to directly tell people they cannot do a thing". For example, government should not be able to do things like saying "you can't own a gun", but can increase taxes to very large amounts in order to pay for/control the damages done by those people. Carbon taxes, for example, are something I support. Carbon caps are not things that I support. I would not support the banning of segregation, but would support the heavy taxation of any business that participates in such a thing, and the giving of the money from those taxes to those who are effected by that negative environment.

I do believe that the freedom to choose how one acts typically results in a person behaving in the way that makes the most sense for them, and that if culture is dying, it is dying for a reason, and that reason is probably a good one. I think that the banning of activities under force results in resentment and hatred, pushing us into a place we should not be.