This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, July 24, 2012.

I'm Caleb Brown. You're already a Libertarian if you buy certain ideas.

Among them, individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace.

Cato Senior Fellow Tom Palmer says civil society, a voluntary society implies a minimal

state. He spoke at the Cato Institute in June.

You don't believe that one should go around hitting other people,

that we should respect the bodily integrity of other people and not exercise violence against them.

You don't believe that people should go around taking stuff from other people, stealing their stuff. You don't believe you should go around

grabbing people tying them up and forcing them to do stuff for you.

Bow your lawn, wash the dishes, and so on.

That's because you're decent normal people.

And you don't believe that in your life you should regularly resort to coercion or force or

violence on other people.

We can expand on that a bit and say,

sometimes you find, hey, this is Washington,

that you disagree with other people, really strongly and yet somehow you don't

kill them even if you disapprove of what other people do because of some deep religious or moral commitment.

Your neighbors in the house next door may be engaging in sexual behavior voluntarily that you don't approve of or

smoking substances of which you disapprove or reading books you don't like.

And yet I'll bet no one here has ever gone and smashed down the door of those neighbors to

barge in and say, stop that!

And then put handcuffs on them and dragged them out, or even burst in with your guns and shoot them.

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