Reply #16: Pure libertarianism, if applied as the Libertarian party wishes,

[Lydia Leftcoast]

would eventually lead to feudalism or something close to it.

Look at the Third World: most of those countries have no government services except police and the military, little or no public education, no restrictions on business activity, no pure food and drug laws (if you think food safety is bad here and now read about food and water borne diseases in other times and places), no environmental or labor laws, no health care unless you pay for it, no fire department except your neighbors with buckets and hoses, etc.

The rich buy their way out with private guards, private schools, exclusive and expensive supplies of food and water, private medical care, houses in the least polluted areas, and private contracts with fire and ambulance services. Meanwhile, they can get even richer, because they can pay slave wages with no benefits and don't have to make any adjustments to their business for safety or environmental purposes.

Those hellish and unfair conditions are too high a price to pay for being allowed to smoke dope or have an abortion.

Don't fall for the libertarian Kool-Aid.