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An open, user owned community for the general disscussion of the libertarian philosophy.

Libertarianism is the belief that each person has the right to live his life as he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others.
Libertarians defend each person’s right to life, liberty, and property.
In the libertarian view, voluntary agreement is the gold standard of human relationships.
If there is no good reason to forbid something (a good reason being that it violates the rights of others), it should be allowed.
Force should be reserved for prohibiting or punishing those who themselves use force.

Most people live their own lives by that code of ethics. Libertarians believe that that code should be applied consistently, even to the actions of governments, which should be restricted to protecting people from violations of their rights. Governments should not use their powers to censor speech, conscript the young, prohibit voluntary exchanges, steal or “redistribute” property, or interfere in the lives of individuals who are otherwise minding their own business.

Source: https://www.libertarianism.org/essays/what-is-libertarianism

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Let's represent libertarianism on the Canvas by drawing the Gadsden flag! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Update

I have been trying to fight off 4 people attacking the picture, and I cannot keep up on my own. I will certainly be willing to keep trying if anyone in this thread tells me that they want to help, but, if not, I cannot continue if these griefers keep at it.

I don't understand how so many people can be so vehemently against the mere idea of freedom, and liberty. Why would one willingly prefer to be oppressed?

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I've plotted out an area at ~(226,206) on the Canvas (it's community can be found at [email protected]) for the Gadsden Flag. I'm using this image as a reference (I drew it by using a scaled down version of this svg that I found as a reference, and drawing over it like a stencil in gimp. It's not amazing, but I think it does the trick.). The reference is placed with a horizontal position of 129, a vertical position of 163, and a width of 117.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Technically it's no rule violation and you don't have to change anything. But my guess is that people are expecting more philosophical types of posts. This is a libertarian community: you are free to share what you want but people may not like it. Just don't bother much and carry on ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for clearing it up!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also I love the disclaimer in your profile description about your content being openly licensed. Do you know if this can be legally enforced somehow?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I'm honestly not sure exactly how much of a legal foothold it has. I tried looking for some answers in this post, but it didn't receive too much engagement. If anything, I'm hoping that it helps to set somewhat of an example for how user content should be treated.