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That's simply not true.

Libertarianism holds human rights above all else. The entire purpose of a libertarians government is guaranteeing peoples' rights.



> Libertarianism holds human rights above all else.

Only through a bizarre redefinition of peoples' rights. Same thing they do with "violence" by saying that the only justification for violence is as a reaction to violence, which when translated ends up only justifying (unredefined, classical) violence against "violence."


> Only through a bizarre redefinition of peoples' rights

What is bizarre about them, and how does it "redefined" rights?


> Libertarianism holds human rights above all else.

Libertarianism holds a very particular and highly contentious conception of human rights (which differs radically, but with some common elements, between different flavors of libertarianism) above everything else. So do several other ideologies, with different conceptions of human rights.


What's highly contentious about rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?


> Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?

Those are slogans, not substantive conceptions of rights, and the last of those a slogan that was used because the thing many then-contemporary liberals would have preferred and that reflects (but still does bot substantively specify) what they and most modern libertarians value most, property, was too contentious even at the level of a slogan.


Sure, they are short, that doesn't make them slogans. For example, you have the right to your life. That means you have a right to not be murdered by others or the state. How is that difficult to understand?

> most modern libertarians value most

That's an invention on your part.

> property

Yes, I know the original wording was "pursuit of property". Property rights have turned out to be a very fundamental right. Not being allowed to own anything has proved disastrous again and again and again.




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