Many people have seized upon the ideals of Mill-freedom, self-sufficiency, limitations on government intervention in our lives-without understanding the tremendous individual responsibility and hard work within their communities that Mill's system entails. You have a duty to provide for the common defense under Mill's libertarianism, and that includes the defense of your community against Nature, including dams and levees for floods. You have a duty to protect the weak against the strong, and that includes participation in your government and court system. The libertarian philosophy as imagined by John Stuart Mill is not a system where you build your little hidey hole, climb into it, pull the hole in after you, and shoot at everything that you don't like that comes by your door.
It is a system where, in the words of Hippocrates, you first do no harm.
