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To: OWK

Okay..

Look, OWK we both know that there is really very little seperating Conservatives from Libertarians.. (certainly less than stands between Democrats and Libertarians.. can we agree on that?)

we differ on social issues, such as:

In a purely Libertarian society what is to prevent atrocities like public beastality? Or drug dealing?

(Provided the individual in question owns both the land and the drugs or the animal)

Basically, that was the question..

1,190 posted on 01/01/2002 7:41:01 PM PST by Jhoffa_
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To: Jhoffa_
In a purely Libertarian society what is to prevent atrocities like public beastality? Or drug dealing? (Provided the individual in question owns both the land and the drugs or the animal) Basically, that was the question..

As for drug dealing, if the individual was selling to a consenting adult, then there's nothing the community can or should do. The buyer and the seller are adults, and are thus free to make any choices they wish, provided those choices don't violate the rights of another.

If the drug sales were to a child, that is another matter. Children do not have the intellectual or emotional faculties necessary to comprehend the consequences of drug use, and therefore a child may not consent to their purchase and use. Hence an adult selling drugs to a child is doing so in the absence of consent which could only have been offered by the child's rights custodian (usually the parent). Such a drug sale may be morally restricted, regardless of where it took place.

Now in the instance of beastility, provided the beastial behavior was not in public view, then the answer to that problem in a free society would be intense and overwhelming economic and social pressure, on the part of the offended community.

In short, such a person should be shunned. This is usually enough to curtail such behavior.

If the beastial sexual behavior (or any sexual behavior) were intentionally displayed to the public who could not reasonably traverse without encountering it, then I think an argument could be made that psychological duress was inflicted upon those who had to witness such actions, and a civil remedy was in order.

1,214 posted on 01/01/2002 7:56:30 PM PST by OWK
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To: OWK
Basically, that was the question..

As the example was originally put, it involved captive audiences of schoolchildren exposed to the property where the cow-poking occured. I recommend going back and looking at it, rather than trusting a summary.

1,219 posted on 01/01/2002 7:59:13 PM PST by donh
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