by Bryan June 5, 2005
Vote Libertarian, for those who don't give a **** what happens to their neighbors, so long as nobody touches their guns, weed, or Chia Pet collection.
by garcalej December 15, 2017
by longtimecaller July 5, 2010
Noun. The belief that pursuing one's own self-interest, while shirking larger social responsibilities, is still somehow humanitarian.
Libertarianism is how the advantaged describe their neglect of the les-advantage: they're "protecting everyone's freedom" by respecting the impoverished's right to be poor.
by SkippyD1 February 9, 2008
The freedom to get rich, and the freedom to screw over as many people as possible in the process.
Also known as Libertarian Capitalism, not to be confused with Libertarian Socialism, which can lay a true claim to the term.
Also known as Libertarian Capitalism, not to be confused with Libertarian Socialism, which can lay a true claim to the term.
Libertarianism (Well the Capitalist version atleast) is the most brutal form of government possible.
How would you like to pay for air?
How would you like to pay for air?
by Desaparecido May 1, 2005
The political party that believes that the government should only be responsible for protecting citizen's physical property, including their lives.
Everything else is up to the individual and their personal desires/choides, including abortion, gun rights, drug use, gay marriage, charity.
Under a Libertarian governement, none of the above would be regulated nor prohibited, and the companies that would provide those services would be privatized, so that people could enjoy the best services at the lowest prices because companies would want to supply it, since the government wouldn't be funding or supporting them.
In other words, everything is based on the truth and accountability of the individual.
Everything else is up to the individual and their personal desires/choides, including abortion, gun rights, drug use, gay marriage, charity.
Under a Libertarian governement, none of the above would be regulated nor prohibited, and the companies that would provide those services would be privatized, so that people could enjoy the best services at the lowest prices because companies would want to supply it, since the government wouldn't be funding or supporting them.
In other words, everything is based on the truth and accountability of the individual.
"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
by Ann Marie November 19, 2004
The idea that licentiousness among consenting adults (legalized drugs, prostitution, gambling, etc.) can co-exist with limited government (confined strictly to preventing anyone from infringing upon the life, liberty, and property rights of anyone else) under a constitutional republic in an environment free from interference by over-zealous right-wing Bible-thumpers, tax-and-spend liberals, or other external agents of oppression.
The main problem with this delusional notion of co-existence is that it runs afoul of an annoying immutable natural law - roughly translated as "nature abhors a vacuum" - that's understood and exploited by every drug pusher, credit card issuer, Las Vegas casino, and Madison Avenue marketer and even the bailout-happy U.S. Federal Reserve and which was summed up by Edmund Burke:
"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as they are disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good in preference to the flattery of knaves.
"Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
-or as John Adams said:
“(The U.S.) constitution was made for a moral and religious people; it is wholly inadequate for any other.”
The main problem with this delusional notion of co-existence is that it runs afoul of an annoying immutable natural law - roughly translated as "nature abhors a vacuum" - that's understood and exploited by every drug pusher, credit card issuer, Las Vegas casino, and Madison Avenue marketer and even the bailout-happy U.S. Federal Reserve and which was summed up by Edmund Burke:
"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as they are disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good in preference to the flattery of knaves.
"Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
-or as John Adams said:
“(The U.S.) constitution was made for a moral and religious people; it is wholly inadequate for any other.”
Two tenets of Libertarianism taken from the Libertarian Party's Statement of Principles:
"We favor the repeal of all laws creating 'crimes' without victims, such as the use of drugs for medicinal or recreational purposes."
"The only legitimate use of force is in defense of individual rights — life, liberty, and justly acquired property — against aggression"
"We favor the repeal of all laws creating 'crimes' without victims, such as the use of drugs for medicinal or recreational purposes."
"The only legitimate use of force is in defense of individual rights — life, liberty, and justly acquired property — against aggression"
by mta3000 March 18, 2010