I think we already know the answer to the question....

Libertarianism Without Boundaries Equals Death

I was dealing with a person today who had no concept of boundaries.  She believed and acted as though she could do anything she desired and say anything she wanted to with absolutely no consequences to her actions, after all, “it’s a free country.”

As she was exercising her freedom on private property, and vocally I might add, this led to her being told to leave and that if she came back she would be trespassed and arrested.

As I talked with her the reason why libertarianism will not work in America solidified.  Hang with me on this one.

Libertarianism would work as a governing principle IF we were a moral people – or if we all accepted certain boundaries while practicing our liberty.  Since we are not a moral people (if we ever really were), libertarianism without morality equals anarchy and death.

I personally like being responsible for myself and making my own decisions.  I am a free man but I live within the boundaries set by God in the Old and New Testament.  I am not going to steal from you, I am not going to lie to you, I am not going to covet your stuff or your wife (I happened to be married to the best wife on the planet), I am not going to be a drunkard (abuse alcohol), and my hands will not shed innocent blood.  If everybody adopted the boundaries that God set, we could all be libertarians and live quite happily.

The libertarianism being espoused today strikes me as being very similar to the behavior and actions of that young woman I dealt with.  Basically anything goes.  I get sick of hearing the fringe elements of the libertarian party talking about legalizing prostitution and drugs, citing the failure of prohibition as the primary example of why the criminalization of marijuana is such a failure.  Let me ask you this, if prohibition was such a failure, was legalizing alcohol any less of a failure?  Look at the destruction the abuse of alcohol brings upon families and the number of people that drunk driver’s kill each year and tell me how much of a better solution legalizing alcohol was to prohibition. 

My point is this: as long as we adopt situational ethics for our guiding moral compass instead of the moral boundaries that God set down for our wellbeing, WE WILL NEVER FIND A SOLUTION TO OUR PROBLEMS, and libertarianism simply will not work.  In fact NO form of government that we come up with will "work."

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. 

It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

                                                                                            John Adams

Or put another way, if you desire an oppressive government become an immoral people.

I still believe in individual liberty.  I call myself a moral libertarian to distinguish myself from all of the immoral crazies that seem hell bent on the destruction of our culture and society.

Thought for the day.....