Libertarianism is the inclusion of every sapient being into the decision making process and all that logically follows from that. Utilitarianism is the objective of ensuring the most happiness for all sapient beings and all that logically follows from that. Sometimes they compliment each other, other times they contradict.
Discuss.
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Great Idea!2008-06-29 15:35
Let's privatize the police force!
I'm going to hire a persoal guard to protect my house. But then since he costs so much I'll ask my neighbor if he would like to pay 50/50 and have the guard protect both our houses. But since crimes are rather rare, we'll ask if all the people on our street would like to divide the guard's salary between us and have him guard the whole street on a bike that we could buy him. Heck, why not have him protect the whole neighborhood and split his salary even more. If we get even more people, we could buy the guard a car so he could cover more territory and cost even less. But then we could hire a few guards to guard the whole city and hire someone we could call so that this person could dispatch the guards when there is trouble. Liberalism is so much better! But, wait, isn't this what we currently have?! D-Oh!