20 Jun 2021 8:11 pm
FOS » 20 Jun 2021, 7:46 pm » wrote: ↑ There is no such thing as a liberal policy for government. That's the amusing thing about liberalism.
You can have a liberal policy for the church, say, meaning no government interference...but for government itself? It becomes a contradiction.
Indeed the majority of people who call themselves liberal will tell you in the same sentence that the government is necessary in order to protect individual rights and that individual rights can only be violated by the government. It is a bit absurd...isn't it?
Indeed there can be crossover between anarchists and liberalism...an anarchist is usually a person who is simply trying to resolve the internal contradictions of liberalism.
They might even call themselves liberal rather than anarchist. That is the point it is more like a no true Scotsman fallacy, imo. Because most anarchist are in fact accepting the critical axioms of liberalism...so they could consistently label themselves as such if they like.
So universal health care is, to you, a conservative policy?
As is public funded contraception and abortions, government funded sex change operations for military personnel, and government subsidies for pregnant women and children and solar energy? All of which require government muscle to enforce, but none is part of the liberal agenda, huh? Final answer?