Libertarians: DUI and Attempted Murder

[Rhum_Runner]

*Originally posted by JamesCarroll *
**I still don’t see how a Libertarian would consider DUI a punishable crime. Where’s the force? Where’s the fraud? Where is the actual (not potential or abstract) victim?
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I think in a Libertarian world you can still have crimes for negligent or reckless conduct. Reckless driving, for example, could still be a crime. Libertarianism doesn’t mean that one gets to do whatever one wants until someone gets hurt.

Incidentally the typical attack on HC laws is that they look to motive as a crime in and of itself. Criminal law requires intent but does not, as a rule, look to motive. (Note that the prosecution may have a hard time proving its case if it can not show the jury a motive, but that is not the same thing as the law needing a motive) Intent is not a synonym for motive.

[Liberal]

The owner can’t have absolute rule can he?

Please prepare your household. My family and I are on our way to squat there. I cannot bear seafood of any kind, so get rid of all of it. In fact, just move out. We will need all the space.