Libertarian Quandaries

Here’s a list of posts that raise challenging issues for (at least some) libertarians and small-government conservatives.

I sometimes refer to these as “you be the judge” questions.

• Is it appropriate to put politicians on trial for economic malfeasance?
• Is it excessive vigilante justice to set your daughter’s rapist on fire?
• Should prisoners with AIDS be segregated from other convicts?
• Which tax collection tactic is more brutal and unjust?
• When a wheelchair-bound guy uses a baseball bat to punish his granddaughter’s molester, what’s the right response?
• Should politicians set pay levels at government-owned firms?
• Is sharia law sometimes appropriate?
• Is the Netherlands right to segregate troublemakers from the general population?
• What do you do about self-destructive behavior in a government-run healthcare system?
• Should there be laws against incest among consenting adults?
• Should motorists be allowed to warn other drivers about speed traps?
• Is jury nullification the right approach for victimless crimes?
• Was this angry father wrong to take matters into his own hands?
• Should drunk-rafting be a crime?
• Should rich people pay higher speeding fines?
• Is it proper for government to take obese children from their parents?
• What’s more important, good tax policy or gun ownership?
• Should the government opt to ignore bad laws?
• Should deference to the Constitution allow barbarians to escape punishment?
• Regarding Operation Chokepoint, is it right to impose a regulation to hinder the biased actions of regulators?
• Is the former Michigan governor responsible for Flint’s contaminated water?
• Should we legalize drugs if it means more tax revenue for politicians?
• Does bad local government justify centralization?

And here’s a quandary for leftists and social conservatives.

• Should a gay man be able to adopt his lover to avoid the death tax?