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RedDevil · 12-29-2018, 11:43 AM

Libertarianism works fine if the playing field is more or less even.
Sadly, money buys power so there will quickly evolve a situation where the have-nots get in trouble. Total free choice is nice if you have options, but worthless if you cannot provide for your bare needs. If there's no system to provide for that, or no way to fund that system, then probably a quarter of the population would have to struggle to just survive, even in wealthy countries.

Burning fuel causes pollution, and we need to clean up that pollution or face the consequences. If you dump your waste in your neighbours garden you get into trouble. Now, this carbon burning waste does not stay neatly in that garden but spreads over the worlds atmosphere and oceans.
Do we have the right to do that and not pay for it somehow?

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