Libertarians Vs Libertarianism

Being two of the most respected and qualified academicians on public policy, Charles Murray, and Robert B. Reich have never been short of making controversial and contradicting statements which arguably serves only their interest of getting an audience. Public policy as it is has been subjected to lots of changes throughout the history leading to different reactions and opinions from different individuals. “What it means to be a Libertarian-A Personal Interpretation” written by Charles Murray, explicitly describes how the society should view the government by claiming it can help in achieving overall happiness and allowing members of the society to have a right to individual freedom when coping with the changes brought by public policy. On the other hand, Robert B. Reich’s “Aftershock the next Economy and America’s Future” talks about overcoming our problems by keeping a tier of classes. This paper discusses the contradicting views of these two writers.

According to conservatives, By allowing government control over local and state business issues is hereby disregarding the law of the land. This disregard has a tendency of diminishing order and justice. In 1960 the Younger Americans for Freedom(YAF), a group of young conservatives, gathered and made a list of conservatives beliefs. Within the statement, the YAF expressed that government inference “reduce[es] the moral and physical strength” of America. They are implying that business regulations like prohibiting monopolies decrease competition which gives America character.

Libertarianism, in its most general sense, is a political philosophy in which the upholding of individual liberty is the principle objective. More than that, however, Libertarians seek to maximize autonomy and freedom of choice; believing that each individual has the right to make their own choices about how to live their lives – as long as they respect the rights of others to do the same.

Libertarians want to be free and rule over their own lives, “One who advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state” (The Advocates). They do not want to sacrifice their own self for the benefit of another, but respect an individuals’ rights. The first traces of libertarianism were found in ancient China, Greece and Israel. It began to develop into what we have now by the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Libertarians see that each individual is the basic unit of society, each of them make choices and are responsible for their own life. However, libertarianism is not the belief that people can do as they please whenever, but rather that each individual can chase their goals and respects the lives and choices of

One of the most popular controversys that even the Founding Fathers of America have been debating about since 1776 is the most just way of running the U.S Government. Even today, it has not been thoroughly established which principal regarding Utility, freedom, or equality is the most significant aspect of the U.S government. However, freedom has always been the most popular right that every American constantly struggle to fight for. The Principle of Libertarianism is the individual right that everyone is entitled to and shall not be interfered by governments policy or regulations, as long as these individual rights would not harm others as well. Considering the principle of Libertarianism, it does cater to the American People by not only allowing individual rights that may protect the people from government corruption but also help benefit the economy of America in which demands from the people are met and that brings the greatest happiness for everyone. Although, Libertarianism can not perfectly serve every aspect of a just government, it should still be the most prioritized principal of the U.S government because overall it benefit the most civilians compare to the other two principals.

There are four main ideological perspectives in the political world. For the sakes of this paper I have chosen to focus primarily on two of them: liberalism and conservatism. Before discussing the relevance of these ideologies in real world issues. I believe it is beneficial to first describe what these two ideologies center around. For starters, liberals tend to want more government involvement in both social and economic issues. They also believe that the government should help the people directly and put into place laws and regulations to further protect individuals. They think that government should work to legalize things such as gay marriage and abortion. All in all, they see the government as a way to help those who are

Conservatism at least acknowledges the value in order, while libertarianism rebels against all types of impositions. Yet order is the prerequisite for liberty, as without some sort of governmental system in place, there can be no outlet for free speech or free action. Thus, extreme libertarianism can never flourish in a society without it falling into

Libertarians are opposed to using government to promote either order or equality. They recognize the necessity for a government but they believe that it should be limited as much as possible. For instance they oppose setting a minimum drinking age which contrast with current law in which most states have a minimum legal drinking age of 21. Libertarians

Based on the political quiz that evaluated my stances on certain issues, my political beliefs and interests aligned with Centrist ideology, although slightly leaning to the Left Wing. Despite my upbringing as a strong Republican, the results classifying me as a Centrist did not shock me due the simple fact of maturation and growing more aware of current world and local issues through watching the morning news, reading news articles on the internet or reading The New York Times, and going to high school. Overtime, with these various exposures- a wide variety of political beliefs- I stopped relying on what I just knew from being around my family and hearing only their bias opinions, and instead began analyzing at what I personally believe and

Conservative economists such as Ayn Rand talk about the New Deal to be a threat to all citizens’ personal freedom.

Libertarianism offers great amounts of individual freedom to the people governed under it. Whether it truly offers the greatest amount of freedom in comparison to other forms of political theory is highly debatable and very subjective in nature.

This is one of the many things a libertarian would say in order to state their opinion. The Libertarian party was “founded in 1971, we have run many hundreds of candidates every electron cycle.” (Libertarian National Committee) The Libertarian party believes that the government should be reduced dramatically and that it should not have any part in the American people’s lives. The Libertarians “believe that government are prone to corruption and inefficiencies.”

Sexual Morality- When addressing sexual morality, there are two perspectives that are always in conflict with each other, the Traditional View and the Libertarian view. The Traditional Views base its merits on biblical text and the application of that text. The Libertarian view concerns itself by focusing on autonomy. While both may have strong convictions on how society should conduct themselves behind closed doors, the two sides are far from flawless, we must all select the side in which we are more morally content.

His reasoning of this concept is that, “In a free society, diverse persons control different resources, and new holdings arise out of the voluntary exchanges and actions of persons5.” His quote refers to the principle of transfer, with voluntary transactions being the best way of allocating and distributing resources2. In a voluntary transaction, the buyer and seller engage in a win-win scenario where both parties have a satisfactory trade on their own terms. Nozick discusses his objection to redistribution policies because of the patterned principle and forcing people to work for others4. He argues the patterned principle justifies distribution on some basis such as needs or effort4. This is problematic, because it plays back into his concerns of a certain group having control of resources. Forcing people to work for others is also problematic to him because it goes against voluntary transaction. For the individual mandate, Nozick sees these problems as central to this component of the healthcare law. Having presented a case for why libertarians find the individual mandate unjust, the following paragraphs will provide a counterargument that examines flaws in the libertarian

After taking the test, I was in the right libertarian category. I scored a -2.26 on social which placed me in the libertarian category and 0.25 on economics which placed me on the right side of the economic scale. I’m not surprised about where the quiz placed me because I grew up in a fairly conservative household. I do consider myself to be socially more liberal, so the fact that I received a more libertarian score than authoritarian makes sense to me. Libertarians believe that individual rights should be the more important than the state as well as the markets. I also believe that individual rights are important, but I do believe that the government needs to have power to keep order. It also makes sense that I received more right on the