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How would a libertarian world deal with a serious epidemic?
Posted on 10/3/14 at 1:23 am
Posted on 10/3/14 at 1:23 am
You need things such as the CDC to effectively track, contain, and target dangerous disease agents. How would everyone be made to comply with safety procedures? How would people without the means be able to have access to a disease control company?
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Posted on 10/3/14 at 1:29 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
It really can't.
There are scenarios for each form of government that they are inherently ill equipped to handle
There are scenarios for each form of government that they are inherently ill equipped to handle
This post was edited on 10/3/14 at 1:30 am
Posted on 10/3/14 at 1:33 am to Volvagia
I agree, this is a weak area for the libertarians. Anytime "big government" is actually needed the libertarian ldeology runs into this problem.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 1:49 am to TOKEN
I don't think most libertarians would have a problem with taxes paying for things like the CDC. That's more of a full blown anarchist issue.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 5:10 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
As if the superstate can be trusted. 
Posted on 10/3/14 at 5:42 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Extinction would be one option.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 5:47 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
something something free market
Posted on 10/3/14 at 5:59 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
I lean libertarian on several issues, outbreaks arent one of them. If your behavior (ie leaving quarantine after diagnosis of illness) can harm others, any reasonable person can see a role for government.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 6:08 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Why would something like Ebola not fall under collective self-defense?
Posted on 10/3/14 at 6:27 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
CDC's job in this country would be much easier if we could control and contain our borders
Posted on 10/3/14 at 7:46 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
There wouldn't be any roads so the disease wouldn't be able to spread.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 7:48 am to Malik Agar
Posted on 10/3/14 at 7:48 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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CDC
Sorry, don't see that anywhere in the Constitution.
What's more important? Survival of the human race? Or the Constitution?
If you give the wrong answer you hate America.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 7:50 am to Malik Agar
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There wouldn't be any roads so the disease wouldn't be able to spread.
Bullcrap. THere would be plenty of good roads at affordable prices - and the ones that carried disease on them would automatically be shut down by the FREE MARKET. Econ 101!
(Death laughs in the face of ALL political schemes)
This post was edited on 10/3/14 at 7:51 am
Posted on 10/3/14 at 7:51 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
I'm imagining a walking dead scenario here
Posted on 10/3/14 at 7:53 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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How would a libertarian world deal with a serious epidemic?
1. Go to Sams and stock up on gloves, masks, and canned food
2. Go to guns and boobs (that store would exist in my libertarian world) and buy AR 15 ammo and a flamethrower.
3. Go home sit on front porch and watch the grass grow
Posted on 10/3/14 at 7:55 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
I can almost guarantee that the reaction of the 'one size fits all' superstate would get more people killed than the disease would.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 7:56 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Do nothing. Epidemic culls the herd. Survivors profit. $$$
Posted on 10/3/14 at 8:04 am to WeeWee
quote:
1.a) Go to Sams and stock up on gloves, masks, canned food, and personal lubricant.
1 b). Go to guns and boobs department of Sams Club (that store would exist in my libertarian world) and buy AR 15 ammo and a flamethrower.
2. Go home sit on front porch and watch the grass grow
3. Shoot first, don't ask questions.
FIFY
This post was edited on 10/3/14 at 8:05 am
Posted on 10/3/14 at 8:06 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Libertarianism doesn't equal anarchism. The idea of libertarianism on this board has been hijacked by the anarchists. There is a strain of libertarianism that acknowledges a place for gov in our lives.
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