If you’re a live-and-let-live person; you’re basically a libertarian. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
Every single political movement promises everything except the one thing libertarianism defends for everyone:
Your right – and everyone else’s right – to be left alone.
Put another way, to be left out of other people’s “plans” – i.e., what other people think you ought to be forced to do or be restrained from doing. The things they think are worth paying for – and expect you to pay for them.
The idea here is that if whatever you’re doing isn’t harming anyone else, then you have the right to do it. And no one else has the right to force you to stop doing it.
It’s a simple idea as well as an appealing one. You’d think most people would like the idea of leaving other people be – and of being free to pursue happiness (as Jefferson put it in that declaration no one reads anymore) according to their own wishes. And yet, the majority of people appear to prefer different ideas.
