jjanecka wrote:That incorrect victor, true libertarians are of the mentaility that social norms should prevail, no protections for anyone, government does not have the right to regulate fiscal or social law.
If you wanna be gay in a libertarian state, fine. If you want a gay only establishment, fine. if you want to abort your child, fine. If you want to birth your child, fine. If you wanna buy a nuclear sub, fine.
Only real laws that should exist are for a small and well-regulated military and those protecting militia, right to speech, creed, and religion.
Perhaps I should be more specific.. because you're right, libertarianism is a larger concept.
It was probably a bad comparison. I don't think a desire to get rid of protected classes is necessarily a libertarian trait, or conservative... or liberal. I've seen it go either way on either side. But the fundamental point is the same. The people who advocate it always say that the laws are already in place and a crime is a crime etc etc. It's a good argument, but in practice (as with communism) we see time and time again that people as a whole don't act fairly, we don't legislate or uphold laws fairly.
I think the most starkly obvious evidence is how crazily paranoid some whites will get about the idea of the USA becoming a minority white. These are frequently the same people who will say that we need to stop protecting the minorities because the laws are equally protecting everyone anyway and being a minority isn't putting you at a disadvantage at all.
But that's just my observation, and not in any way statistical.