• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Pretty sure the libertarian stance on slavery is that it is wrong, given the lack of liberty that slaves have. And the fact you can use a government to ensure nobody gets enslaved demonstrates the difference between a libertarian and an anarchist.

    The maximum amount of personal liberty does not come from zero government. It comes from having enough government to prevent people from enslaving other people.

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      1 year ago

      Pretty sure the libertarian stance on slavery is that it is wrong

      Libertarians are VERY individualistic (shocker) which means no 2 libertarians define libertarianism the same way.

      HOWEVER, you literally just have to search for “slavery libertarian” in the google box to find all sorts of fairly high profile libertarians arguing about how slavery can actually be a good thing that we should allow.

      For example, from Walter Block: http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEST/article/view/346