What's wrong with libertarianism? (Photo)

[Galraedia]

[silverweb]

1. This is the primary hypocrisy.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Those who profess a Randian philosophy today have conveniently forgotten the second half of the John Galt creed -- a second half that changes everything:

"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

A similar quote states,

"If ever the pleasure of one has to be bought by the pain of the other, there better be no trade. A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud."

A Libertarian philosophy only works if all parties can safely be presumed to be forthright and fairminded -- giving honest "value for value" -- and we all know the actual truth of that.

[rhett o rick]

2. To be fair, I am sure that the Koch-head brothers arent working to enslave us, it's just

and unfortunate side effect of their drive to power.

[nxylas]

3. Maybe not them personally

However, they are aided and abetted by a Southern "patriot" movement made up of people who are pissed at the abolition of first slavery, then segregation.

[A Simple Game]

7. Of course the Koch brothers don't want to enslave people.

It cost too much to house, feed, and provide medical care for a slave, better to pay minimum wages.

[ReRe]

4. Libertarianism has another name...

K&R

... i.e. The John Birch Society (that is if you call the Koch bros. "libertarians.&quot Are all libertarians John Birchers?

[JoeyT]

5. They're not all Birchers.

They're varying levels of paranoid ranging from the Birchers at one end to the Penn Jillettes at the other, but they're all selfish. Being as self-centered as a top is their unifying quality.

[ReRe]

6. Guess we could just call them...

... the "Me-Me-Me-ers." Thanks for the explanation.