Quote:It's simply a system that says my property is protected under law and punishable by the terms society has agreed upon.

 

Okay, so how did society agree upon it? Government? Okay, that's government of the social.

 

However, it's really much simpler than all of that. Your idea of protection of your personal property only has two avenues, either you're protecting it yourself or through your own means (hiring security, having a fortress built, whatever) and that would be the libertarian way of doing it.

 

However, that's not the way you're actually talking about, you're talking about socializing the means to protect your property. The tax funded police system? That's socialism. The tax funded court system? That's socialism too.

 

So, like I said, when you say you want liberty what you really mean is you want socialism, but only up to the point where your sensibilities like it. Quite a hypocritical and self-centered ideology, really.

---