Love And Liberty - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten

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Libertarians don’t really have their own holiday. Communists have May Day. The woke have MLK’s birthday. Nationalists have July 4th or their local equivalent. But libertarians have nothing. I propose Valentine’s Day. The way people think about love is the last relic of the way that libertarians think about everything. Love operates on the non-aggression principle. To a first approximation, the only rule is that you may not seize it by force. Otherwise, anything goes. (except prostitution - the significance of which could be an entire post of its own) Love is unfair. Some people go on…

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