@AncapAir You’re locked in a cage.
For whatever reason, a vote is held.
Do you consent to the cage by voting for the guy who says he’ll break it open and let you out?
To me, there’s two moral options: voting for libertarians or not voting at all.
They’re not ‘red tories,’ they’re blue socialists, and ‘blue tories’ — conservatives who believe in free market economics — are extinct, if they ever existed.
I'm my own libertarian. I have been influenced by great men like Spooner, Rothbard, and Hoppe, but I am not those men.
I am my own. My philosophy is my own based off those inspirations and my own critical thinking.
Libertarians don't believe every transaction is voluntary. They believe consent distinguishes voluntary transactions from coercion.
Your landlord didn't create your need for shelter, and refusing to provide you with his property for free isn't coercion.
You need food to survive, too. Does that make farmers your oppressors?
Your argument isn't against exploitation. It's against the inconvenience of other people having rights.
@ZizFizziks We’re taught to see democracy as good and moral but, as libertarians, we have to ask ourselves ‘is a democratic government any more entitled to violate our rights and freedoms than an autocratic regime?’
I think not.