What It Means to Be A Libertarian

What does it mean to be a libertarian? Dr. Jeffrey Miron at Harvard offers one answer. According to Miron, libertarians have enormous respect for individual decisions. While other ideologies attempt to use government force to advance their ideas of how people should act or behave, libertarians think that individuals should be able to live their own lives as they see fit.

[andrejtrotzki]

I thought I'm a liberal my whole life. Now I know I'm libertarian instead. I feel like a new born. I got the power right know.

[alfonsorivera]

I am a libertarian and it feels so good.

[PureLiberalWarrior]

Sadly, he seems to be the *only* openly libertarian professor at an Ivy League school. Still, I'm impressed that here's even *one* on this politically god-forsaken planet.

[Bsliggs]

we need to end the two party system. NOW.

[yeetdiscreet]

That’s… Odd. All my life I’ve grown up thinking I am mostly conservative on pretty much everything… Now I know that I am a mix of conservative and libertarian. Interesting…

[patrickhansen]

Holy F...his words are like a revelation

[MyBloodyBear]

I just want to be left alone for the most part. As long as I'm not PHYSICALLY bothering someone, I think that my choices should be left alone by others. Especially government.

[PureLiberalWarrior]

A libertarian professor at Harvard. I LOVE it! :-)

[alexbc]

I'm an "independant" voter, but im definetly putting this in my favorites for reference.

[MIT]

this is freaking awesome and this was the first youtube ad i ever clicked on it. thats pretty cool

[Fenrirknight]

@Reu360 I'm sorry, but how did you determine that something without a mind or the capacity to perceive and learn, which has never exerted those capabilities, to be an individual?

[bballj]

@Herimia
Sorry for the confusion. I did not mean survive in terms of getting fed or taken care of. What I meant to say is that if the baby can stay alive without the mom's womb, then he/she is a person. For example, if you take out the baby/fetus at 4 or 5 months there is no way it could survive. However, at some later stage like 8 months, it might. Although this is not a black and white concept.

[JudgeSabo]

@beeeefcurtains If you'll notice at the top, that was broken into 4 parts. Should I wait for you to reply to those, or are you just going to ignore them?

[soldatna]

@shackupyourstruly This seems to be the consensus but what do you do when big business has already become big?

[JudgeSabo]

@beeeefcurtains 1/3

I think I might have forgotten to post the first part in my previous reply :/
At least I don't see it in the comments. I'll repost it now. Sorry for the confusion. I'll just redo the whole thing so that you can now see that part in context as well.

[colin]

Proud young libertarian here! Thanks, doc!

[moaxcp]

You are assuming that I said the government grants those rights when what I said is the contract grants those rights (the two people signing it). The government interest should be in enforcing the marriage contract when there is a dispute like any other contract.

[manor]

@atmcfall I agree with what you are saying about abortions. Do you think it is a good idea to have judges that think about and determine how best to protect the rights of the mother and child?

[gggg]

@Bolgernow Who's this directed at?

[FreakyKing]

Can someone tell me the difference between Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism, and is Neo-classical Liberalism the same as modern liberalism? Thank You.