A Declaration of the Rights of Individuals and the Obligations of Government. It was composed for political purposes: to promote a set of ideas for Libertarians to consider in creating platforms.
I am a little confused about how these “rights” are determined. Who decides what age-appropriate freedoms are? I have found the Libertarian philosophy to be very similar to the One World Order’s philosophy that we are so useless we need “Dad” to set the rules. How is that freedom exactly because the t sounds like an ‘out of the frying pan, into the fire’ scenario to me.
I would be interested in the rights you propose but I feel our current political system is clearly flawed and geared more towards greed than any care for the welfare of the people. This is what needs to change. IMHO. 🙂
You decide upon your choices because you know more about your strengths, weaknesses and circumstances than strangers do. Of course you will facilitate your choices from ppl and sources you trust, not unknown bureaucrats.
So the idea then is for each individual to choose what rights they choose? There would still be a requirement for oversight (government) of some kind. How would that work? Similar to the governamce we have now, elected officials? Clearly that doesn’t prevent corruption at all levels. I like the idea of the People choosing for themselves but it would still have to benefit overall society so how do you implement that without governance? The Libertarian party, as far as I can tell from researching it, is a more radical version of conservatism than the Republicans are.
I am in agreement with your ancap ideals, but I am also a pragmatist. Not everyone wants an ancap society or a monarchy. What everyone wants is a good life achieved under their personal vision of why that means. Instead of the “mob rule” of today, give me the option to OPT OUT of as many government rules and taxes as I want and let anyone who wants them make their own choices to OPT IN. Read my “Digital Direct Democracy” series to understand how this might work.
I am a little confused about how these “rights” are determined. Who decides what age-appropriate freedoms are? I have found the Libertarian philosophy to be very similar to the One World Order’s philosophy that we are so useless we need “Dad” to set the rules. How is that freedom exactly because the t sounds like an ‘out of the frying pan, into the fire’ scenario to me.
I would be interested in the rights you propose but I feel our current political system is clearly flawed and geared more towards greed than any care for the welfare of the people. This is what needs to change. IMHO. 🙂
You decide upon your choices because you know more about your strengths, weaknesses and circumstances than strangers do. Of course you will facilitate your choices from ppl and sources you trust, not unknown bureaucrats.
So the idea then is for each individual to choose what rights they choose? There would still be a requirement for oversight (government) of some kind. How would that work? Similar to the governamce we have now, elected officials? Clearly that doesn’t prevent corruption at all levels. I like the idea of the People choosing for themselves but it would still have to benefit overall society so how do you implement that without governance? The Libertarian party, as far as I can tell from researching it, is a more radical version of conservatism than the Republicans are.
I am in agreement with your ancap ideals, but I am also a pragmatist. Not everyone wants an ancap society or a monarchy. What everyone wants is a good life achieved under their personal vision of why that means. Instead of the “mob rule” of today, give me the option to OPT OUT of as many government rules and taxes as I want and let anyone who wants them make their own choices to OPT IN. Read my “Digital Direct Democracy” series to understand how this might work.