We live in a "free" country. In this free country, thousands of people are in jail for victimless crimes in which the only person being affected is the person sitting in jail. My feeling is that in a free country you should be free to do what you want, as long as you are not negatively affecting others around you. What should stop two consenting adults from fighting to the death if both of them consented and had no problem with being killed. In a free country, you should have complete control over your actions and no one should be able to take that away from you.
We should have a minimal amount of taxes that goes to the bare necessities such as hospitals. Private companies should be in charge of building bridges and so on. Education would be somthing that you would have to take the initiative to get. There would be no public schools, only private and mostly people would homeschool their children. This would eliminate kids in school who don't want to be in school.
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Danny,
ReplyDeleteWhile I am anxious to see you mount a defense of a truly libertarian society, my fear is that this subject may be too broad (even in this brief post, you cover prison policy, privatization, elimination of taxes, homeschooling, and more). How are you going to 'contain' your argument and bring enough focus to it so that you can cover it all in a few pages? What if you presented your reader with a sort of 'day-in-the-life' of a typical family living in a truly libertarian society? you could follow mom, dad and the kids through their daily routine, and in the process point out all the ways in which their lives are different (and better?) than those of current citizens in the U.S.? Not sure this is the direction you want to take this, but it might be fun. Let me know if you want to talk about this further!