Everything in stuporfire's world is black and white. There is only anarchy or totalitarianism. This whole thread is about Neocons trying to convince themselves they are still conservative.
Libertarianism is not anarchism for the hundredth time. There are many different forms of libertarianism so you can't just lump them all into one category. Anarchists believe in zero government, Libertarians do not. I am a minarchist.
Minarchism (also known as minimal statism) is variously defined by sources. It is a libertarian capitalist political philosophy. In the strictest sense, it maintains that the state is necessary and that its only legitimate function is the protection of individuals from aggression, theft, breach of contract, and fraud, and the only legitimate governmental institutions are the military, police, and courts. In the broadest sense, it also includes fire departments, prisons, the executive, and legislatures as legitimate government functions.[1][2][3] Such states are generally called night-watchman states.
Minarchists argue that the state has no authority to use its monopoly on force to interfere with free transactions between people, and see the state's sole responsibility as ensuring that contracts between private individuals and property are protected, through a system of law courts and enforcement. Minarchists generally believe a laissez faire approach to the economy is most likely to lead to economic prosperity
Minarchism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Protecting kids with zoning laws is not a nanny state. Zoning laws are legislated at the local level not the federal level.
Regulating what kind of lunch parents send their kids to school with is a nanny state. See there are degrees of infringement.
Employers have the right to fire me anytime they want for any reason. I have they right to quit at any time with no reason. The contract is that they will pay me the agreed upon amount for my services. Neither has the right to impose thier will upon the other without consent. In other words I cannot demand a job from a business and they cannot demand that I work. If I sign a contract to complete a specific project and they pay me and I do not complete said project then that is a different story.
Deadbeat parents in my opinion should still have to support their kids. Not supporting their kids infringes upon the rights of the children since by bringing kids into the world you take on the responsibility to care for them. If drugs were legal I think we would see less abandonment because I think hard drug use would go down. I don't know for a fact but I suspect that much of the reason people become homeless drug addicts is because of the cost of the druigs and that finding them and money for them become the driving force in their lives. If you remove the high cost and make them available they might still be able to work and function in society. If they can't then they should be able to get treatment but they should have to foot the bill. We have to remove the stigma and penalties that create harder criminals out of these people.
WTF is a coke bender anyway? Rabbi do you even know what coke is? You don't go on a coke bender and leave for your family for two weeks at a time lol. People do that on alcohol though and that's completely legal.