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Originally Posted by badnarik
The libertarian position would be that soldiers were fraudulently enlisted if their promised benefits are withdrawn. That is not a moral argument.
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So grandfather the current enlistees' benefits and screw over the new recruits, if you really believe that changing benefits (which isn't what they are doing, anyway - they are changing who PAYS the benefits) is some kind of fraud.
That's not a moral "argument", that's not really an argument at all - it's more like really, really stretching the definition of "fraud" to avoid an inconsistency in your worldview.
Should I have sued Bell when they switched insurance companies and some of the benefits changed or were reduced for me? I think libertarians as well as everyone else would have laughed me out of court, and rightly so.