You said:
I consider myself a small-l libertarian. My philosophy is that “people should be free to do as they please as long as they do not hurt anyone” (other than themselves) or impose a cost on me.
The Wiccan rede : “Do As Thou Wilt But Harm None”
Anyone will notice that for every libertarian (and many progressives and Marxists today) this statement is paramount to all of their political philosophy. It is aligned with the Marxist philosophy of ‘Relative Morality’ and seeks to make everyone “Equal” to the extent that even all forms of morality are equal. Do whatever feels good is what they want to preach to our children.
This is the essence of the disease that is harming our children ever since the radical counter culture took root here in America.
Anyone will notice that for every libertarian (and many progressives and Marxists today) this statement is paramount to all of their political philosophy. It is aligned with the Marxist philosophy of ‘Relative Morality’ and seeks to make everyone “Equal” to the extent that even all forms of morality are equal. Do whatever feels good is what they want to preach to our children.
Which part of "political" did you not understand? Libertarianism doesn't say that “Do As Thou Wilt But Harm None” should be anyone's personal morality, but only that harm prevention (more precisely, rights violation) is the test for the morality of government action.
A major difference is that to a Marxist, "morally good" is defined as "whatever advances socialism". This is the essence of their "relative morality", in that something is not good or bad in itself, but only in relation to how it advances socialism.
Thus, racism, sexism, and homophobia are ignored if they are practiced by a system like Islam, because Islam promotes the idea of the Group being everything, and the individual nothing.