What It Means to Be A Libertarian

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What does it mean to be a libertarian? Dr. Jeffrey Miron at Harvard offers one answer. According to Miron, libertarians have enormous respect for individual decisions. While other ideologies attempt to use government force to advance their ideas of how people should act or behave, libertarians think that individuals should be able to live their own lives as they see fit.

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[stormspottter]

Vote Ron Paul 2012! He's the best libertarian 

[donfolstar]

Libertarianism seems to have been co-opted by people completely focused on the unregulated economy side over personal freedoms. Take this channel for example- almost entirely economic videos. Further, Libertarians are throwing in with the Republican party which does not seem very interested in personal or economic freedom (unless you are a mega-corporation). Get it together movement.

[TheRainSnake]

@Mikevodka21 libertarianism is hardly the articles of confederation, though.

[TheRainSnake]

@Teapartyla they are the same in the sense that they are both trying to impose their views on the entire country or people in general

[TheRainSnake]

@deathsagent1 you can be libertarian and support another conservative party member. the point of libertarians is that no one is telling you what to think, feel, or how to live your life.

[fryem9UP]

i dont agree with this guy BUT whats the name of the background music?

[Teapartyla]

5 seconds into the video, I lost interest when you said Conservatives are the same as liberals. WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!

[deathsagent1]

If I Became A Libertarian, I Would Be Automatically Asociated With Ron Paul. If Thats The Case, Screw It, I Have No Party.

[diskpanic]

@darksungames

Though someone already responded to you, I'd like to reinforce it. Read the preamble of the Constitution. "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." The Constitution is very Libertarian.

[Macbrother]

@darksungames You can't maintain a society if murder, rape, and theft are unpunished. This is one of the fundamental tasks of government and any party outside of pure anarchists are going to grant this. Your freedom stops where the next persons begins.

[mmohr81]

I wouldn't want an entirely conservative system, or an entirely liberal system. Nor would I want an entirely Libertarian system. I want a balance where the world consists of more than just 2 horribly polarized parties. I tend to fall into the Libertarian views for most categories, but people argue that an unregulated market would have issues. So would a large, unregulated, corrupt government who makes decisions for us. I'll take the lesser of 2 evils, generally speaking, and keep my freedom.

[Mikevodka21]

remember the Articles Of Confederation? didn't work well...