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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsyagotme
(3,057 posts)Just CAN'T understand basic human nature. At all. Or history.
chowder66
(9,125 posts)yagotme
(3,057 posts)"We need anarchy!"
"Do you own a gun, and know how to use it?"
"No."
"You won't like anarchy, then."
Martin68
(23,042 posts)end of the spectrum are people who have a benign live and let live philosophy, and on the other end are libertarians who use their version of libertarianism to justify outrageously immoral behavior, as described in "Atlas Shrugged."
yagotme
(3,057 posts)He thought anarchy meant doing whatever you wanted. Well, he was correct, to a point, unless someone more powerful than you decided that wasn't going to happen.
Martin68
(23,042 posts)protect people from bad behavior. That's a deeply naive POV.
yagotme
(3,057 posts)Goodwill only comes from good people.
Martin68
(23,042 posts)yagotme
(3,057 posts)republianmushroom
(13,986 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(146,197 posts)The Heinlein reference amused me
erronis
(15,521 posts)Much to study and dissect.
niyad
(114,117 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,312 posts)(Although, the last one was related.)
Libertarians are just Republicans who like to smoke pot.
Jokerman
(3,524 posts)Most of them have a combination of those traits but every single one of them has been both arrogant and missionary.
JoseBalow
(2,691 posts)Pinback
(12,178 posts)LeftyLucie
(27 posts)"Absolutely convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they neither understand nor appreciate."
Orrex
(63,315 posts)Apologies to the "Left libertarians" out there who insist on clinging to a label that was taken from them decades ago and isn't coming back.
sarchasm
(1,015 posts)Libertarianism, n: A political philosophy some people embrace after the roads have been paved.
lonely bird
(1,705 posts)I usually call it the theophilosophy of a spoiled 4 year old
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