As a former registered Libertarian I’d say your argument is pretty unassailable. Putting people in jail for using drugs does less harm than allowing them to live and use on the streets. While Libertarians say that decriminalizing prostitution doesn’t mean it is OK, in practice that’s how most people take it.
I agree 100% with this article, Brian. Thank you. I wish you felt the same about conserving the Constitution. Calling for a Convention of States via Article V is dangerous when Article V puts it in the hands of the Congress in D.C.
I, too, agree about 60% with Libertarians and disagree on the same lines as you. PLEASE think about our Constitution and how if it were followed strictly, many of our problems would vanish.
I think the love we are to show to our fellow man, coupled with man's sinful nature is the basis for not going full libertarian. And to sell out everything for the cause of "liberty" is the height of self worship. We are created in the image of God, but fallen due to sin. Accounting for that belief is where faith in God, his Son's atonement for our sins and following his ways spelled out for us in His Word is the true underlying reason why full libertarian ideology is a wrong road to travel.
Well said. I lost a niece to homelessness brought on by drug addiction, and now she is dead at 50 years old and her mother is raising her 3 daughters at the age of 77. Society could have demanded that the people living under the bridge were put into treatment, but no one seemed to care. So sad.
Brian, If I were writing on this subject, my beliefs are aligned with yours and I could not have written it in a succinct manner as you did. Being formerly from CA and seeing the social destruction due to the legalization of weed, sanctuary state etc., tells me that those so called freedoms are not a good model. Thank you for championing true conservative principles and having a steel spine. We need more legislators like you.
"t. But we don’t live in a philosophy seminar. We live in a community where meth destroyed entire family lines, where fentanyl is killing kids who thought they were taking a Xanax, and where the social wreckage of that stuff lands on neighbors, churches, grandparents raising grandchildren because their own kids are gone."
And to move beyond the purely theoretical one need only look at the streets of Portland. The people of Oregon, including some intelligent, committed conservatives, honestly thought they were voting for money for rehab. As with so many other ballot measures, they got sold a bill of goods. And a city over run by homeless, strung out, mentally ill addicts. Libertarianism, to which I once ascribed is a perfect system for a population of educated, moral, engaged people. But we don't live in that population.
As a former registered Libertarian I’d say your argument is pretty unassailable. Putting people in jail for using drugs does less harm than allowing them to live and use on the streets. While Libertarians say that decriminalizing prostitution doesn’t mean it is OK, in practice that’s how most people take it.
Well said!
I agree 100% with this article, Brian. Thank you. I wish you felt the same about conserving the Constitution. Calling for a Convention of States via Article V is dangerous when Article V puts it in the hands of the Congress in D.C.
I, too, agree about 60% with Libertarians and disagree on the same lines as you. PLEASE think about our Constitution and how if it were followed strictly, many of our problems would vanish.
I agree....
I think the love we are to show to our fellow man, coupled with man's sinful nature is the basis for not going full libertarian. And to sell out everything for the cause of "liberty" is the height of self worship. We are created in the image of God, but fallen due to sin. Accounting for that belief is where faith in God, his Son's atonement for our sins and following his ways spelled out for us in His Word is the true underlying reason why full libertarian ideology is a wrong road to travel.
Well said. I lost a niece to homelessness brought on by drug addiction, and now she is dead at 50 years old and her mother is raising her 3 daughters at the age of 77. Society could have demanded that the people living under the bridge were put into treatment, but no one seemed to care. So sad.
Well written, Brian! Exactly!! Thank you.
Brian, If I were writing on this subject, my beliefs are aligned with yours and I could not have written it in a succinct manner as you did. Being formerly from CA and seeing the social destruction due to the legalization of weed, sanctuary state etc., tells me that those so called freedoms are not a good model. Thank you for championing true conservative principles and having a steel spine. We need more legislators like you.
Exactly
Well said indeed.
I agree... That is why I have lost faith in IFF...
"t. But we don’t live in a philosophy seminar. We live in a community where meth destroyed entire family lines, where fentanyl is killing kids who thought they were taking a Xanax, and where the social wreckage of that stuff lands on neighbors, churches, grandparents raising grandchildren because their own kids are gone."
And to move beyond the purely theoretical one need only look at the streets of Portland. The people of Oregon, including some intelligent, committed conservatives, honestly thought they were voting for money for rehab. As with so many other ballot measures, they got sold a bill of goods. And a city over run by homeless, strung out, mentally ill addicts. Libertarianism, to which I once ascribed is a perfect system for a population of educated, moral, engaged people. But we don't live in that population.