It is an incontrovertible fact that over the last few decades the State has deliberately and mendaciously attacked and chipped away at every civil society institution in place to promote moral virtue, replacing it with a simultaneous system of moral relativism and indeed quasi-moral-nihilism, combined with a steadfast technocratic belief in the infallibility of what they term "science", the end result being total dependence on The State, and the steep erosion of any form of virtue or moral ethics emanating from the private sphere: A rules-based culture of laws, rather than a norms-based one of ethics and morals. It is to my everlasting sorrow that libertarians fail to realise this - and indeed, at times, even somewhat facilitate this through superficial and ill-thought-out libertine "anything goes" mantras. The only way a libertarian society will flourish and lead to positive outcomes is with a strong civil society, with cultural norms of behaviour that promote virtue. It is right to fight the cold dead hand of government, but a libertarian state where everyone feels it is morally acceptable to act like d**ks will be a sad place indeed. As important as it is to fight big government, we must also look at the constructs that will ensure a good society in its place.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:51:22 +0000
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