Today is any interesting day to talk about Libertarianism as it is a Voting Day. Although Arizona is on member of fifty in the United States, we as citizens living in Arizona get to vote our choice for Governor and US Senate today. We also get to choose the Propositions that decide the fate of medical marijuana use, to whether or not we will be able to hunt and fish to our hearts content in our state. This makes us a representational republic which our Founding Fathers accomplished with the signing of the Constitution.
I stand somewhere in the middle of the extremes of a Libertarian form of government. Libertarianism has been defined as the belief “that government is best that governs least” by Henry David Thoreau in Civil Disobedience (McHugh 440). This makes me think about ‘We the people, for the people and by the people’ in respect to our Constitution. And I wonder if I could still vote for individuals who will represent me and my thoughts if Libertarianism were our active form of government. It is difficult to choose sides of a form of government that I am unable to see, hear and feel in action, but is based on ideals of being able to have free individual will and live my life as I want as I long as I don’t encroach on others.
McHugh’s article pinpoints money in relation to Libertarianism. As Parekh is unable to sell his type of cryptography in the United States because the government does not allow it, Parekh is unable to maximize his profits. The type of cryptography Parekh is using could be used for good or evil. I am glad I live in a nation where certain boundaries are formed in order to protect the people regardless of the loss of income to others. It seems as though the benefits of protection out weigh the profitability. This brings me to my last thought in regards to the money and Libertarianism that keeps me pensive. If we were all able to keep our entire income and avoid paying taxes, where would our children go to school? What type of medical care and social services would be non existent? What roads would I drive on? And would I have state parks to visit during my summer vacation? I don’t know about other viewpoints, but I live in the United States of America and I am proud to be part of ‘We the People’.
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