Ep7: David vs Holiath - Libertarian Debate

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Welcome to episode 7 of the Liberty Itch podcast. For this episode I tried something different, a debate between two seasoned libertarians, South Australian political candidate James Hull and former Senator David Linehelm. I was hoping for a discussion of such earth-shattering significance that global politics would be changed forever,

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or failing that I would accept something resembling an episode of Jerry Springer. Unfortunately, I got neither. The result was more reminiscent of the old joke about asking a question to two rabbis and getting three opinions. In the end, the closest that we got to a deeply philosophical conclusion was that we each

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agreed to ourselves that the others were definitely wrong. Mr. James Hull and Senator David Leinhelm, welcome to David versus Holiath, Libertarian versus Libertarian, the great debate of 2025. Thank you for joining us.

Ep7: David vs Holiath - Libertarian Debate

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Mar 15, 2025

In this episode, Liberty Itch writers, James Hol, (former senator) David Leyonhjelm and I discuss libertarian concepts that each has written about. We reached absolutely no conclusions whatsoever.

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0:00 Introduction

2:15 Government enforced morality

56:44 Foreign wars

1:11:10 Non-aggression principle

1:21:20 Libertarian hedonism

1:31:31 The Social Contract.