To a certain extent, I understand where you're coming from. If a person's choices are dictated by rule of law, the threat of being caught and prosecuted determines their choices, taking away their ability to simply make the right decision for the sake of compassion and respect..leaving us unable to learn integrity.
Unfortunately, we have not quite evolved sociologically to the stage where everyone can be trusted to rule themselves. This is painful to say as a Libertarian, because I believe that we're closer to that stage than those who believe in government control of individual choices.
Where society lies currently, we have to have law for the sake of maintaining some sense of order. The proverbial, "right to swing your fist ends at someone elses nose" has to be enforced to prevent chaos.
The guy who would kill his neighbor for blowing leaves on his lawn, in your model of society, would be left alone to his own vices. The neighborhood would simply say "don't blow leaves on his lawn...he's a crazy motherfucker!" but he would just be looking for the next reason to react...maybe blow away the kid who stepped off the sidewalk onto his grass. That's why we have to incarcerate madmen. If we don't, psychotic killers will rule the world.
IIN that I think people should take the law into their own hands
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To a certain extent, I understand where you're coming from. If a person's choices are dictated by rule of law, the threat of being caught and prosecuted determines their choices, taking away their ability to simply make the right decision for the sake of compassion and respect..leaving us unable to learn integrity.
Unfortunately, we have not quite evolved sociologically to the stage where everyone can be trusted to rule themselves. This is painful to say as a Libertarian, because I believe that we're closer to that stage than those who believe in government control of individual choices.
Where society lies currently, we have to have law for the sake of maintaining some sense of order. The proverbial, "right to swing your fist ends at someone elses nose" has to be enforced to prevent chaos.
The guy who would kill his neighbor for blowing leaves on his lawn, in your model of society, would be left alone to his own vices. The neighborhood would simply say "don't blow leaves on his lawn...he's a crazy motherfucker!" but he would just be looking for the next reason to react...maybe blow away the kid who stepped off the sidewalk onto his grass. That's why we have to incarcerate madmen. If we don't, psychotic killers will rule the world.