Q1. Do you agree with the first two sentences?
• Is liberty desirable in itself? Are we really all just Libertarians at heart?
The first statement is more correct than the second. The essence of liberty is that Individuals are the ultimate minority in society and should be protected, people have rights to themselves and to the benefits of their labour. According to Thesurus.com antonyms of liberty include denial, prohibition, refusal, imprisonment and incarceration. There is a word for when people loose those aforementioned rights and are subjected to those limitations, slavery. So yes liberty for all in itself is desirable because the alternatives are tyrannical slavery of at least some portion of the populace.
Too answer the second question, you need go further than the mainstream political debates in the USA to conclude we aren’t all libertarians at heart. There are many people who …show more content…
No one is threatening you with imprisonment if you don’t buy the shirt, and the markets have voted with their currency that foreign production is what they want. You can see this Happening through out history, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and China since the second world war have at some stage been at the industrialisation level of T-shirt production and have technologically advanced, allowing for more income from trade and more development. The problem with this is that people see the unemployed workers in their country and the horrible working conditions in a sweat shop and jump to negative conclusions on the choices in production, but as described in Planet money episode 497 “the sisters who made our shirt,” the workers gain a much higher income allowing a better education for their kids, don’t live under a patriarch and have a high quality of life by Bangladeshi
• Is liberty desirable in itself? Are we really all just Libertarians at heart?
The first statement is more correct than the second. The essence of liberty is that Individuals are the ultimate minority in society and should be protected, people have rights to themselves and to the benefits of their labour. According to Thesurus.com antonyms of liberty include denial, prohibition, refusal, imprisonment and incarceration. There is a word for when people loose those aforementioned rights and are subjected to those limitations, slavery. So yes liberty for all in itself is desirable because the alternatives are tyrannical slavery of at least some portion of the populace.
Too answer the second question, you need go further than the mainstream political debates in the USA to conclude we aren’t all libertarians at heart. There are many people who …show more content…
No one is threatening you with imprisonment if you don’t buy the shirt, and the markets have voted with their currency that foreign production is what they want. You can see this Happening through out history, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and China since the second world war have at some stage been at the industrialisation level of T-shirt production and have technologically advanced, allowing for more income from trade and more development. The problem with this is that people see the unemployed workers in their country and the horrible working conditions in a sweat shop and jump to negative conclusions on the choices in production, but as described in Planet money episode 497 “the sisters who made our shirt,” the workers gain a much higher income allowing a better education for their kids, don’t live under a patriarch and have a high quality of life by Bangladeshi