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libertarianism

Political theory that upholds the rights of the individual above all other considerations and seeks to minimize the power of the state to the safeguarding of those rights.

At its most extreme it sees the state as having no legitimate power to interfere with people's lives, since permission for such interference has not been granted by the individual concerned. Individuals should be free to do whatever they like so long as it does not affect the rights of others. Recent advocates have included the philosopher Robert Nozick.



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Guardian columnist George Monbiot has called the anti-camera activists "anti-social bastards" sniffing that "while there are many reasons for the growth of individualism in the UK, the extreme libertarianism now beginning to take hold here begins on the road.
My Christmas wish this year is that people stop typing the word libertarian without first doing a modicum of research on what libertarianism means and how it relates specifically to the issue about which they're writing, or maybe even ask a handful of folks who at least call themselves libertarian.
The Corinthians have developed a particularly nasty strain of libertarianism in response to the gospel's gift of freedom.
 
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