Re: The Libertarian Philosophy and far right entities of Islam.
Its not necessary that a crime can only occur if there is a specific victim or criminal. At times the whole society can be a victim and hence a particular action can be considered unlawful and liable for ounishment. Forexample in soem states water is a scarce commodity and washing cars and lawns with open taps is illegal and punishable. In this case crime is not being comitted against any specific person but is an act that causes harm to whole society.
The scarcity of water affects the whole society directly if one person abuses the system. Hence, the victim is the society. However pre martial sex does NOT affect anyone. If I were to leave my tap running for hours the whole community will be effected. If i were to have sex with a stranger over the weekend for hours, NO ONE would be effected. Hence victimless.
Pre-marital sexual activity leads to lot of problems that the whole society faces and has to deal with, these include and not limited to teen pregnancy, STDs, jealousy, mistrust etc. If a society as a whole has to pay the price of these actions it can also prohibit these actions.
Jealousy and mistrust. lol
Im jealous of my neighbors new car. Lets stop him from getting a another one.
I mistrust my sister because she lied to me about her exam marks.
c'mon.
I agree teen pregnancy is a problem, only because protection is so widely available in today's society. however, the teenager made a decision that she does not want to use protection and therefore suffers the consequences.
Why should the state forcing people to be “moral”—i.e., to act morally—the state would in reality deprive US of the very possibility of being moral. The concept of “morality” makes no sense unless the moral act is freely chosen.
The libertarian, in contrast to so many conservatives and liberals, does not want to place man in any cage. What he wants for everyone is freedom, the freedom to act morally or immorally, as each man shall decide.