Hoisted from the draft queue from 3/6/14:
We pretty much take it for granted these days that regulation, a standard government regulation prohibiting some commercial activity under threat of financial or criminal penalty, impinges on liberty.
We pretty much take it for granted these days that regulation, a standard government regulation prohibiting some commercial activity under threat of financial or criminal penalty, impinges on liberty.
Those right of center argue that because of this such regulations are wrong. Those left of center generally concede that these regulations impinge on liberty but that they still might be justified by reference to other values, whose (force is stronger/weight is greater) in some instances.
On the other hand, I'd argue that many such regulations can be justified on grounds of liberty, without having to introduce other competing values.
Examples: trigger warning, nutritional information, anti-gay religious exemptions, etc.
This is a good demonstration of why I once called myself a libertarian and why I still have feelings for the label.
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