Re: Libertarianism

In the article that is written by Hospers, Hospers defends two ideas central to libertarianisms:(1) Individuals own their own lives. They, therefore have the right to act as they choose unless their actions interfere with the liberty of others to act as they choose. (2) The only appropriate function of goverment is to protect human rights, understood as negative rights. Liberty is a paradigm of harmonic creation, not of destructive conflict. Libertarianism is, as the name implies, the belief in liberty. Those who believe in libertarianism are called libertarians. Yeah, it is true that no one is anyone else's master, and no one is anyone else's slave. . And it is liberty, not slavery that must be universal; because slavery cannot be universal — there will always be a master; and because liberty is life itself, and lack of liberty is death. Libertarians strive for the best of all worlds - a free, peaceful, abundant world where each individual has the maximum opportunity to pursue his or her dreams and to realize his full potential. Libertarians believe that each person owns his own life and property, and has the right to make his own choices as to how he lives his life - as long as he simply respects the same right of others to do the same. Another way of saying this is that libertarians believe you should be free to do as you choose with your own life and property, as long as you don't harm the person and property of others. Libertarians believe that this combination of personal and economic liberty produces abundance, peace, harmony, creativity, order, and safety. Indeed, that is one of the central lessons of world history. Virtually all the progress the human race has enjoyed during the past few centuries is due to the increasing acceptance of these principles. But we are still far from a truly libertarian world. Libertarians believe we would see far more progress, abundance and happiness if the ideas of liberty were fully accepted and allowed to work their miracles. Our goal as libertarians is to bring liberty to the world, so that these wonderful and proven ideas can be put into action. This will make our world a far better place for all people.