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So you would not stop the rise of greater tyranny through lesser? Doesn't that lead to a net loss of liberty overall? As for reject it, who cares? The majority of people reject our current government, or at least would have a preference for government different to that we have.

If you achieve your libertarian society would you allow for elections which could then remove liberty?

I don't think libertarianism provides that a democratically elected non-libertarian government is morally justifiable right? So your choices are either a) Accept democracy as a higher principle than liberty (i.e. Allow people to choose not liberty) b) Enforce 'liberty' and in doing so take away...

Libertarianism is authoritarian too - or at least, it needs to be for its basic tenents to function.

I would apply the same critique to the free market, people get hurt in the free market, people make bad decisions, some people end up worse off than they could have been had the government intervened. People aren't on an equal footing, some people start off poorer than others due to the...

The 'myth' of autonomy does society rather well in our capitalist society.

I lose.

Euthanasia supported by a right to 'free choice' is wrong imho. Autonomy is really a myth, a person is a person through their interpersonal relationships and their history (+genes). This idea that we could set up a framework for euthanasia which would allow autonomous decisions to be made seems...

Not all suicidal people need treatment, for example say I have some extremely painful cancer which leaves me in utter agony and there is minimal chance of survival. I think my application to be euthanised should be successful. By not forcing people who have short-term problems to get help you...

This is contentious... while it is true that many people are not diagnosed as having a problem before their suicide how many people exactly will visit a psychologist for an evaluation? Post-suicide it is often evaluated that something like 90% of individuals who commit suicide were suffering...

What if I were to say no one of sound mind should want to kill themselves, especially in cases where they're suffering no pain? I mean shouldn't the desire to end a happy life speak of some psychological failing? There's an innate value in life, it's something which a 'sane' person doesn't...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine_of_double_effect

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I do somewhat agree tbh, I believe that experiencing great pain is a greater joy than experiencing nothingness however I find our mind seems to shut out these commitments when we are placed in such scenarios. I've been very sick before, throwing up for 24 hours... I can see how if that continued...

Devil's advocate her, sup yo? Where is autonomy if the person is incompetent?

Well according to you your fear of clowns is equal to your fear of death but I'd probably reject that, people seem quite capable of denying their fear of death even to themselves... my attempts at arguing with people about this have been somewhat an attempt to awaken an acknowledgement of this...

Are you the vietcong?

squeel?

I discuss a lot of things at serious length, if you think it's a matter of me 'pushing my opinion' instead of discussing issues I'm interested in good for you, that's a subjective judgement you can make if you so please. However it's often more just that particularly contraversial ideas or those...

There's no 'rules' the universe needs to abide by either, we just observe these 'rules' and suppose they're reality. You can conceive God as being something which doesn't need to obey our rules no better than I can conceive the universe in such a way. We might very well be wrong but we are...