Jeremy Kauffman

You libertarians, the left libertarian types will often do this two step where they're like, well, you know, we don't want the state to be involved with these things, which should be handled through, you know, through private, you know, approbation or whatever.

But then

when when you post about how well hey you know it's better to be straight than to be gay or you know it's better to have children that do not have children you know they then condemn you for passing judgment and it's like well you know i i think i can tell what you really want here because you know you just want everything to be allowed you want everything to be permissible you know your morality is essentially that if it's agreed to

uh you know that it's okay or that it's good and that's certainly not my uh you know morality um you know i i you know so i wouldn't i wouldn't agree with this kind of thing um you know and then also i may this may be a break from some of the libertarians but i think this idea like people are different you know the average cop look i think they're bad cops i think they're cops who abuse their authority i'm not like a holy pro cop guy in the slightest

But at the same time, I recognize that this is a job for, you know, an average individual, essentially, okay?

And the idea that I want...

I'm not saying their conscience should never enter into it, but to some extent, the idea that they are just following orders is not a wholly wrong idea to me.

We want cops to be enforcing the law, not constantly making entirely subjective judgments and just doing what they want all the time.

And so, you know, to me, like something like in the Chauvin case, like, well, was he trained to do this?

Is this what he was supposed to be doing?

These are highly relevant facts to, you know, to how I would judge a case like this.

Yeah, I'll give you an example then.

I don't know if you'll find this thought experiment interesting, but it's an area in which my thinking has changed as a libertarian.

Honestly, I came from, I probably wouldn't consider myself a classical liberal anymore, but I came from that school of we want all the laws to be written down, we want everything to be fair.

But I've come to realize that this can also be an exploit of sorts.

If I look at why, for example, is drinking not allowed in a public park?

Well, this is really because there's a certain type of person we don't want to allow drinking.

And it's not easy to write a rule that says, you know, a couple who wants to set out a blanket and, you know, and bring out a bottle of wine and have a nice picnic in the park.

Well, that's allowed.

But the bum, you know, drinking out of a paper bag, we don't want that to be allowed.