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Liberalism is by far better

iduals have a certain responsibility to being moral, and if limits are required to enforce these moralities they are willing to do make that sacrifice on personal freedoms. The libertarian on the other hand is likely to disagree with the conservative in the aspect of putting limits on personal moralities. The libertarian believes that each person has the right to live life in any way the he so chooses, as long as he respects the rights of others. The libertarian is an advocate of freedom from regulations in such areas as illegal drugs, cigarette smoking, youth curfews, pornography, prostitution, gun use, electronic mail, and so on, where as the conservative may be in favor of limiting these freedoms. Libertarians believe that all actions should be voluntary, and the only actions that should be forbidden by law are those who have used force on those who have not themselves used force in such cases as murder, rape, robbery, kidnapping, and fraud.Today there are signs that we may be limiting the size of government and increasing liberties among the individual. A libertarian might argue that the government has no role in creating jobs, that taxes should be abolished, and that government should be reduces to a minimum. If the government is kept out of our lives, we will be more prosperous.It is a widely held belief that politics and economics are two separate entities, however this is untrue. Actually they are very closely related. “Economic arrangements play a dual role in the promotion of a free society. On the one hand, freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end itself. Ion the second place, economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom” (Friedman 276). The first of these aspects are very important in regards to freedom because people, intellectuals mainly, have a bias against this aspect, regarding ...

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