I understand and part of me wants to agree. But that leads me to think about many things. About the right to life, when (if anytime) it is appropriate to take one’s rights away (prison, execution), which I think that I constantly debate with myself.

I don’t believe in the Virtuous State, and so I can’t bring myself to defend any collective or individual in power having the prerogative of taking a life. But then again, some crimes are so egregious that they surely must justify the death penalty… Being consistent with your values and ideals is hard and a constant work in progress.

That also reminds me of an argument I’ve seen that libertarians cannot be against cancel culture, since according to the non-aggression principle and the right to life refusing access to problematic individuals may be the only solution to deal with them (conflating that with cancel culture is a bit facetious imo, but I guess the author was trying to be provocative).

So yeah, many things to think about 😅