while government programs often require compliance to all sorts of requirements.
Situation A: The government takes $1000 from me and gives it to you. Situation B: The government takes $1000 from me and gives it to you … then takes another $1000 from me to pay someone to go around and pry into your personal life.
Any consequentialist libertarian should agree that Situation A involves less loss of liberty for both of us than Situation B does.
Shouldn’t most consequentialist liberals too? This plan is lifestyle blind. If I want to be a bohemian artist, work pro bono full time, edit wikipedia, smoke marijuana or just play Xbox in my basement, I won’t be judged by the electorate or state for it.
Situation A: The government takes $1000 from me and gives it to you.
Situation B: The government takes $1000 from me and gives it to you … then takes another $1000 from me to pay someone to go around and pry into your personal life.
Any consequentialist libertarian should agree that Situation A involves less loss of liberty for both of us than Situation B does.
Shouldn’t most consequentialist liberals too? This plan is lifestyle blind. If I want to be a bohemian artist, work pro bono full time, edit wikipedia, smoke marijuana or just play Xbox in my basement, I won’t be judged by the electorate or state for it.