Politically, I have always sided with classical liberalism, the idea that the role of government should be limited to protection of an individual’s life, privacy and property, from outside aggression and its corollary of free speech — and that’s it: all other transactions can best be handled in a free market. Thus, freedom in a political context means the absence of coercion by government, and since they have a legal monopoly on coercion, their only purpose for its use is to protect an individual from physical aggression. In other words, government must never initiate force — only use it to defend its citizens.
The Way Forward?
The Way Forward?
The Way Forward?
Politically, I have always sided with classical liberalism, the idea that the role of government should be limited to protection of an individual’s life, privacy and property, from outside aggression and its corollary of free speech — and that’s it: all other transactions can best be handled in a free market. Thus, freedom in a political context means the absence of coercion by government, and since they have a legal monopoly on coercion, their only purpose for its use is to protect an individual from physical aggression. In other words, government must never initiate force — only use it to defend its citizens.