[Responsibility2nd]

In "Libertarianism: A Primer," David Boaz argues that "if drugs were produced by reputable firms, and sold in liquor stores, fewer people would die from overdoses and tainted drugs, and fewer people would be the victims of prohibition-related robberies, muggings and drive-by-shootings."

Libertarians are the most stupid class of people to ever infest the earth.

[LouAvul]

Libertarians are the most stupid class of people to ever infest the earth.

Aren't they? I never really knew how ignorant they are until they flooded onto FR. And nothing brings them out like drug threads.

Actually, the only time I see them post is on drug threads. Maybe they're here just to make conservatives look bad?

[Seruzawa]

Proponents of the drug war have that distinction.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"Libertarians are the most stupid class of people to ever infest the earth."

Libertarianism shares one thing with communism in that they are both utopian dreams not realizable in a real world.

Communism has the "advantage" that it can be twisted into a tyrannical dictatorship that is at least good for those that end up at the top ... so long as they stay at the top.

So I guess libertarianism is silly in that if it ever did get established for a short bit of time, those that put it in place would be just as likely as everyone else to get screwed over once the government started grabbing back power.

The really silly thing about libertarianism is that anyone with a sufficient amount of intellect and stick-to--it-iveness (and a modicum of luck) could live a libertarian-like lifestyle so long as they didn't try and impose it on anyone else. If you are wealthy and discrete you can get away with a heckuva lot for a heckuva long time.

[jmacusa]

Drug prohibition, next to slavery was the worst social policy ever enacted.