Where, precisely, are the libertarian red lines?

“Freedom, oh freedom … well that’s just some people talking.” (The Eagles, Desperado, 1973)

Yes, readers, it’s the age old, pesky issue of libertarianism … namely, how far does it go?  “Do as thou wilt,” the ancient satanic maxim, “and to hell with anyone else?  Don’t you oppress me you fascist.”

By that maxim, that flasher of his gear at children on that train … he was perfectly within his rights? How about gay porn for children in classrooms, with the rainbow flag on the wall?  Rainbow and Hamas flags from council offices on commemoration days such as Dunkirk or VJ Day?

Or this?

What about Hanoi Jane during Vietnam?  Hundreds of American GIs killed, bodies usually sent home … while Hanoi Jane sits astride a Viet Cong barrel for a photo op?  Do the words “treason to one’s people” not arise there?  Or does libertarianism dictate that if a jihadi is raping your daughter, you must stand back like our plod and let him (or them) get on with it?

Decades ago, I asked a chap named Tim Worstall about this (never did ask DK) and his reply was, “Classical Liberalism.”  That is … maximum possible freedom, with some constraints of decency or consideration.

That’s fine … quite a while ago, there was an item about two gays I think it was doing it in public.  Our Julia wrote, “Get a room.”  I mean, that act which could not be unseen that day and for many days … did we not have a right not to see that?  How about a Podesta cartoon about a group of men gathered around a bed gangraping a toddler?  That’s fine according to the libertarian maxim?

All right, less extreme is my constant request to put a moniker or handle somewhere in the text in your comment, out of courtesy?  Yet there was another comment on my post yesterday, ignoring that admin request. His right should trample over that of the blog admin? Her gaff, her rules, his gaff, his rules, no longer apply here?

Let’s move on … how about these?

Just as Reform in the UK should probably sort out its set of policy planks to avoid being no more than the Uniparty reboiled, maybe libertarians should sort out where the red lines are or are not?