Reply #9: LIBERTARIAN EQUALS FAULTY LOGIC [View All]

[Don Davis]

The essential premise of libertarians is that government should only exist where it is absolutely necessary and where people couldn't otherwise protect themselves -- so that a police force, for example, would be one case of a justifiable governemental function.

However, the reality of the modern world is that people face more danger from defective products, "polluted" food, water, drugs, etc., and other "corporate" action, than they do from a literal physical assault.

Indeed, there arguably would be less chaos amd mayhem from abolishig local police forces than from elimination of federal regulatory authorities.

And do the libertarians even think capitalism could survive without a Securites & Exchange Commission?

Perhaps an argument for libertarianism could be made in a by-gone era where the only way someone could hurt you is to attack you in your home; but any justification of this philosophy today is sheer madness.