Sentences with phrase «libertarian position in»

Why the conservative or libertarian position in those values disputes is to act without precaution, handwave damages to posterity, or to endorse acting with total disregard for the pain and suffering our emissions will cause people abroad

Our libertarian friends would argue that our inability to establish a stable conservative - but - not - libertarian position in the national culture is a sign of the incoherence of our principles, a sign that our attempt to reconcile freedom, an entrepreneurial economy, and human dignity with the safety net and the regulatory state is just an attempt to have our cake and eat it, too.

Not exact matches

Atheism is just a belief position on gods, and atheist could, theoretically, believe in all manner of supernatural things, like crystals, libertarian free will, or qi.

Given these results, why is separationism still the dominant position of many civil libertarians, including most Jewish and mainline Protestant leaders in the field of church - state thought?

And if libertarians are afraid of conservatives» social positions, all they need to assuage their fears is a belief in their professed ideology — that small government will mean less involvement in people's personal affairs.

That's one of the most fundamental differences, I think, between a deeply conservative position and a strictly libertarian one: conservatives think that for all its merits, the right we have to choose in the marketplace needs to be shaped by virtue and ordered by a moral order (I never tire of pointing out that Adam Smith thought himself a moral philosopher).

With an individual's blog it is possible that you can discern what the agenda is - Paul Staines» agenda is, I think, avowedly «anti-establishment» (at least in his own mind) and libertarian to a degree that is almost anarchistic - he will probably not agree in totality... With the blogs that have numerous contributors, the agenda may be less clear - Liberal Conspiracy for example is less easy to categorise - yes it is left leaning, but the inconsistency in positions can be quite provoking and interesting.

«asserting heavier restrictions for some intended good is» has pretty much nothing to do with Conservatism, aside from some rare cases where said intended good was already restricted 200 years ago and therefore conservative position is to continue that (restricted pharmacology comes to mind - which of course happens to be one of the main differences in position between libertarians and conservatives).

[1]- Ironically, many true liberals in classical liberalism sense are currently trying to re-brand things back, by reclaiming «liberal» label for their left - libertarian positions (one of the most notable examples is Dave Rubin), while branding former - progressives - now - called - «liberals» as «progressive» again, on the basis that current US progressive movement is claimed by many to be against many individual rights and the basis of classical liberalism

By now you will have understood that I am sympathetic to the libertarian position, and I wonder whether the debtors» friends in Congress have a covert agenda, namely to keep those with poor credit from taking on debt even when these debtors are fully informed of the risks and costs and quite willing to bear them.

By describing the artists» tactics in similar terms, Celant aimed to position arte povera as parallel to libertarian politics.

This is a curious position for libertarians to take in that they do not usually qualify their support for property rights based on where those rights are held.

Roger Bate was a think - tank staffer with an economics degree who has held a variety of positions in libertarian lobby groups including the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) and European Science & Environment Forum (ESEF) in the UK and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in the United States.

But Jerry Taylor, a senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute said «scientists are in no position to intelligently guide public policy on climate change.»

Our co-blogger Randy Barnett is arguing for the first time before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday in the marijuana cases, taking the liberal, libertarian pro-drug rights position.

Indeed, it is arguably even possible to sympathize with the libertarian position on judicial review and yet argue that in some types of cases, courts should be more deferential than in others; or at least I have taken this position, though perhaps I'm just a faint - hearted libertarian.

Colorado's libertarian streak can also be seen in the state's position on the grace period for late premium payments.