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To advocate for society to be organized on the basis of strict individualism, as libertarians do, is to argue that everyone has the right to do whatever he or she wants.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18953.htm
The link, and quote from the link, is poor. It is poor because it is full of dogmatic falsehoods.
The whole 'debate' between 'right' and 'wrong' is very simple. Right is voluntary. Wrong is involuntary by deception and involuntary by violence; where - the innocent are injured - on purpose.
The 'right' can blame the left for "STUFF". What blame? What STUFF?
What, exactly, is the conviction perpetrated against "The Right"?
Do you see this?
Try an experiment. Take away the 'right' word and add the 'left' word and see what happens.
The 'left' can blame the right for "STUFF". What blame? What STUFF?
What, exactly, is the conviction perpetrated against "The Left"?
How did the experiment go?
Now take any individual who has injured an innocent person by deception and or by violence.
Did the 'collective' injure someone - on purpose?
Did 'capitalism' injure someone - on purpose?
Do you see what happens?
The 'group' (or anything) is blamed for the actions of an individual.
How convenient is that for the individual who actually does the injury to innocents?
I can't answer that question for any individual. I can help many individuals (or harm them) if I have the POWER to publish words read by many, many, people.
I don't.
I'll send this to that same web page and see if this is published on that same web page.
Why did that false blame pass the filters of reason? Why are my words rejected? Who, exactly, can be responsible?
How about a quote?
"Responsibility must be Individual, or there is no responsibility at all." Josiah Warren (1852)
What is the real problem with INVOLUNTARY capitalism?
How about another quote?
“every individual will attempt to secure his own requirements as completely as possible to the exclusion of others.” Carl Menger (1840 -1921)
The problem arises when one individual injures another, innocent, individual by deception or by violence, on purpose, to gain at the expense of the innocent individual.
The practice of profiting at the expense of the innocent becomes exponentially more profitable as the number of victims increase.
Ron Paul has embraced an economic viewpoint. Which one?
Will he answer the question accurately or will he falsify the answer?
What question?
Will you force or fraud people into injuring innocence for profit; or will you support individual accountability?
See?
The question can be re-phrased if you can't see - yet.
Will you allow anyone to account for thier own personal actions or will you allow people to project blame onto 'others' and thereby avoid accountability for indivdual actions?
Read the quotes again. One means one thing. The other means another thing. They may not actually be opposites in all cases. Are you honestly accountable or do you 'get away with murder'?