First and foremost, the most important issue is freedom, but also how to achieve a maximum amount of freedom. Milton Friedman best describes keeping freedom by stating, “How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect”(275). Today the conservative view may be seen as a response to social and economic programs initiated by the liberals in the past thirty years. Conservatives generally agree that the “government has grown too become to large and bureaucratic, too removed from the local control; its intrusion into our lives is creating resentment, trampling on our rights, reducing personal responsibility, and stifling th

Many conservatives focus on family breakdown and crime. Individuals have a certain responsibility to being moral, and if limits are required to enforce these moralities they are willing to do make that sacrifice on personal freedoms. The libertarian on the other hand is likely to disagree with the conservative in the aspect of putting limits on personal moralities. The libertarian believes that each person has the right to live life in any way the he so chooses, as long as he respects the rights of others. The libertarian is an advocate of freedom from regulations in such areas as illegal drugs, cigarette smoking, youth curfews, pornography, prostitution, gun use, electronic mail, and so on, where as the conservative may be in favor of limiting these freedoms. Libertarians believe that all actions should be voluntary, and the only actions that should be forbidden by law are those who have used force on those who have not themselves used force in such cases as murder, rape, robbery, kidnapping, and fraud. Today there are signs that we may be limiting the size of government and increasing liberties among the individual. A libertarian might argue that the government has no role in creating jobs, that taxes should be abolished, and that government should be reduces to a minimum. If the government is kept out of our lives, we will be more prosperous. It is a widely held belief that politics and economics are two separate entities, ho

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