Talk:Consequentialist libertarianism

Utilitarianism
Is consequentialism essentially the same as utilitarianism, or would utilitarianism be a subset of consequentialism, in that it favors a specific kind of consequence? I went ahead and excised this portion:


 * Murray Rothbard, in For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, argues that utilitarianism was harmful to libertarianism because it led people to seek less radical reforms for expediency's sake. He argues, "There have been no utilitarian revolutionaries...Current free-market economics is all too rife with appeals to gradualism; with scorn for ethics, justice, and consistent principle; and with a willingness to abandon free-market principles at the drop of a cost-benefit hat."

EVCM (talk) 18:13, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Utilitarianism is a kind of consequentialism. Darimoma (talk) 10:51, 30 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Consequentialism is one of three features of utilitarianism. The other two are hedonism and universalism. Pontiff Greg Bard (talk) 20:36, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

McVeigh
Wasn't Timothy McVeigh basically a consequentialist libertarian (and possibly even a utilitarian)? He said, "I have great respect for human life. My decision to take human life at the Murrah Building – I did not do it for personal gain. I ease my mind in that...I did it for the larger good." He's basically saying, It was necessary to kill a certain number of innocent people so that many more deaths could be avoided (e.g. from incidents similar to Ruby Ridge, Waco, etc.; which the bombing was intended to deter the government from carrying out) EVCM (talk) 07:42, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

David Friedman
I'm somewhat skeptical the line "who use utilitarian consequentialist arguments to justify libertarian philosophies." - one of the defining features of the way Friedman sets up his arguments in, for example, "The Machinery of Freedom" is that they are consequentialist without being utilitarian. (Entiex (talk) 09:32, 3 April 2010 (UTC))

Amoralism?
Consequentialism is itself a type of moral code, and therefore is NOT the same as amoralism or moral skepticism. So until someone can provide the proper citation(s), I am removing this unsubstantiated and contradictory sentence, "A number of libertarians are amoralists, thus lending them to the consequentialist libertarian school" along with Amoralism and Moral skepticism in the See Also section, due to their irrelevance. --Adam9389 (talk) 23:58, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Socialist consequentialist libertarianism
Someone made an edit assuming that there was such thing as someone called a "consequentialist libertarian" who happens to be a socialist. I haven't seen a source saying this. A consequentialist can be a socialist of course, but the term "consequentialist LIBERTARIAN" appears to have only been applied to free market capitalists. Big Large Monster (talk) 18:35, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
 * If there are only sources that say this, then so it is. I must confess that if that is the case, it would confuse me greatly. There is general agreement that libertarianism is not necessarily support of capitalism and that, furthermore, the deonto/conse divide doesn't concern politics per se, but the justification of certain political systems. Therefore, should the deonto/conse divide apply just as much to non-capitalist libertarians? This seems to me like it's just a logical inference from the nature of the supposed divide. Byelf2007 (talk) 2 June 2012
 * Everything I've seen from socialists has not been without exploitation theory being essential to their views, i.e. capitalist exploitation as being intrinsically immoral. Maybe there is notable consequentialist socialist out there somewhere, who isn't concerned with exploitation but only consequences, and if there was I would be surprised if he called himself a consequentialist libertarian. Big Large Monster (talk) 20:35, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

What about Left Consequentialists
Why do Neo-Liberal Libertarians get a monopoly on the concequentialist label? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.125.230.135 (talk) 02:34, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

I second this. The Niskanen Center would seem to lean in this direction, see e.g. https://niskanencenter.org/blog/libertarian-principles-niskanen-and-welfare-policy/     Carleas (talk) 22:32, 23 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Seeing no further discussion, I've removed the reference to this as an inherently right-libertarian position. Carleas (talk) 17:36, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

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