On a given issue, a journalist confronted with the libertarian position, like legalizing drugs, objects by pointing out the most extreme possible consequence: “So I could go buy heroin at the store?” Fair enough, except that there are no analogous challenges to the establishment positions. A candidate whose stance is that drugs must remain illegal is never asked, “So you’re okay with imprisoning millions of people, empowering violent street gangs, destabilizing multiple foreign countries, militarizing municipal police forces, and still having ubiquitous drug use?
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Conor Friedersdorf (via prettayprettaygood) Friedersdorf is increasingly one of my favorite journalists/commentators. Also the whole article this quote came from is good. (via hipsterlibertarian) |
