VIA-POSITIVA (PHILOSOPHICAL) VS VIA-NEGATIVA (LEGAL) LIBERTARIANISM The differen

VIA-POSITIVA (PHILOSOPHICAL) VS VIA-NEGATIVA (LEGAL) LIBERTARIANISM

The difference between those of us equally ‘libertarian’ (sovereignty, reciprocity, truth, duty, excellence, beauty) in preference is the emphasis on using optimistic philosophical baits to promise returns on cooperation given our understanding of economics vs emphasis on pessimistic legal threats to promise retaliation and punishment for parasitism and predation.

The Lesson we learn from ALL conservative and libertarian history: bait doesn’t work.

Only Threat does.

There is no via-positiva argument for returns on sovereignty and responsibility, because that is a defacto statement of returns on merit.