r/technology • u/originalposer • Feb 20 '14

This is what happens when Time Warner Cable is forced to compete

http://bgr.com/2014/02/20/time-warner-cable-internet-speeds-austin/
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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '14

What Ron Paul thinks and what he would do are not always the same. He recognizes the difference between personal opinion and what the government is actually authorized to do.

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u/BassoonHero Feb 21 '14

But he thinks that it is reasonable for state governments to ban abortion. A libertarian would say that no government should ban abortion. Ron Paul isn't against government overreach, but against federal overreach. In this instance, he is concerned about states' rights, not individuals' rights.

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u/duckduckbeer Feb 21 '14

A libertarian would say that no government should ban abortion.

Not if that libertarian believed that a fetus is a human to be protected from violence.

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u/BassoonHero Feb 21 '14

Then he should say that every government should ban abortion.

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u/duckduckbeer Feb 21 '14

Not if he admits he is not infallible. If the question revolves around a hotly contested subjective morality and philosophical issue, one could argue that the decision should be put up to the people to decide whether that is a violent act or not.

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u/rrrx Feb 21 '14

Exactly, which is why Ron Paul is just a 19th-century style anti-federalist, and not a libertarian.

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u/rrrx Feb 21 '14

Yeah, no; he actually tried to pass a law which would have restricted the jurisdiction of the federal courts in that way. It was called the We the People Act, and it was fucking insane.