Assertion: libertarian's action | /r/HasProperty | permissible
Facets:
value: morally
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Even if you think we have an obligation to rescue the drowning toddler, indeed, even if you think we’d be justified in coercing someone else to rescue the drowning toddler, you’re unlikely to think that the action described in Charity Mugging is morally permissible.
text: If one’s actions avoid causing harm to anyone else, then those actions are permissible and must not be the subject of “compulsion or control.
text: From here, it becomes the burden of those who support such government actions to explain why those actions are morally permissible, either by showing how the government’s actions are really different from the actions in my example (in a way that makes the government’s behavior much better) or by showing how the actions in my example are really justified (though that would be very difficult).