Sorry I wasn't clear.



CHARITY giving would be by peer pressure. But even libertarians expect to have laws and regulations to protect everyone from those who will not take responsibility for their own actions "just because it is the right thing to do". It would STILL be illegal to murder, steal, or do other things that harm other people and their property. Libertarians may be optimists, but not stupid, lol!



The big difference is that laws would be limited to those which truly stop you from harming somebody else, but not regulate things which others fear will affect only your morality or lifestyle decisions (such as your sex life or other personal decisions). Of course, there are some gray areas as to whether something is likely to only harm the person involved, or others as well (venomous snake keeping, certain drugs, etc). Those may require some reasonable regulation to allow maximum freedom with minimal possibility of harming others. But so many of our laws are for victimless crimes or stupid things like keeping pets that are less likely to cause problems than a large dog. Many have nothing to do with solving a real problem.



I doubt that we would ever have a truly libertarian society, but I sure would like to see SOME libertarian freedoms.



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