Re:Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug
by merpnderp on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @03:49PM
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Libertarians agree that society needs to take responsibility for providing a support system. It's just their definition of society differs from yours. They believe interested parties should take up the burden, where you apparently mean the government should provide those services, which means forcing people to provide those services.
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Re:Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug
by mariodiana on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @04:22PM
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This is the most important distinction that libertarians make: government and society are not the same thing. Most everyone else simply conflates the two. "What, as a society, should we do?"
Individuals are in society with one another; there is no such thing as "Society," in the collectivist sense.