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No person, government or business has the right to tell another person how they're allowed to breathe. We have to stop accepting the premise that breathing freely is some kind of perk to be enjoyed at someone else's discretion and not a natural right.
Seems a lot of the hardcore LOLbertarians around here have forgotten a little thing known as the principle of self-ownership. You aren't truly free unless you have control over what happens to your own body. This is why compulsory masking is wrong, from the libertarian perspective. If these clowns had their way, everybody would be walking around in space suits, schoolgirl outfits and what have you.
Self ownership only applies in public spaces and your property. Otherwise, the property rights of someone else's property override your ability to exercise your right of self-ownership. They can't force you to do something, but they can deny you access to their property if you don't voluntarily comply.
Yeah, no, from the libertarian perspective, self-ownership is a natural right and therefore inalienable. You don't get to decide when the individual is or is not sovereign over his own person, otherwise there could be no private property.
Look at it this way, if self-ownership is conditional, the individual's bodily autonomy is subject to being violated by other individuals and the state. This opens the door to human enslavement and trafficking. Put another way, if self-ownership is conditional, a tyrant has a right to enslave a nation's inhabitants or force them to participate in a communist economic system because the land he rules over is his own private property.
Without self-ownership, you cannot avoid being used and abused by others more powerful than you, hence its importance for libertarians.