Reply #60: How about Market Socialist Libertarians?

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Earlier in the thread someone mentioned that the political spectrum is circular. In my estimation, this means that either too far right or too far left both wind up totalitarian.

I believe that no one should fall below a certain basic standard of living, which should include housing, schooling, health care and food. I also believe that if one wishes to try, one should be able to get rich. You can pry my guns from my cold dead fingers. I am an omnivore. If it doesn't eat me first, I will eat it. I grew up killing dinner, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

You are perfectly within your rights to protest my meat eating, my militarism, my right to shoot you if you try to come through my window. I respect your opinion, but woe betide you if you try to force me to live as you think I should, whether you are a religious fanatic or some other variety of nut.

We are supposed to be a free country, and to me that means we are free to do as we please as long as we harm no one.

How is this hard to understand??