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Libertarians and conservatives – similar but different : Comments
By David Leyonhjelm, published 4/7/2023Neither has sympathy for the woke, neither declares their pronouns, chooses their gender, or seeks to cancel those with whom they disagree.
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Side note- When reading John Stuart Mill people often seem to quote the beginning of "On Liberty" (On Freedom- Negative Freedom- freedom so long as it doesn't affect the freedom of others) but not the end- in which Mill acknowledges that "everything affects everything- and he doesn't know what to do about it" so negative freedom actually doesn't work. But few things are ideal. Perhaps negative freedom reverts to the positive freedom, virtue based freedom described by Plato, Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics), Nietzsche (Genealogy Of Morals) and others.
Rhian said "Why does “freedom of gay story time” make you feel like a “slave”?"
Answer- Traditionalist and heterosexual people may not be able to relate to gay culture but feel that they are unable to control the gay education of their own children in the face of unrepresentative gay politics that isn't representative of their views. "a government that is not of the people by the people for the people is a tyranny".