As gardening wastes time when stealing your neighbors veggies is easier individually, or taxing him collectivly.. or chargeing him rent as the top of the food chain..
Libertarians are bizaaro "Marxists"... What a concept.....
Fortunately, TAC presents a variety of views, and in the same issue can be found one of the best defenses of individualism and freedom and libertarianism I've had the pleasure of reading in that magazine (online this time, since I unfortunately let my charter subscription lapse).
Dan McCarthy's In Defense of Freedom makes an excellent counterpoint to Locke's confused and disjointed screed.
Libertarians would self destruct on their own if they got their way. The whole ideology is a joke.
The most fundamental problem with libertarianism is very simple: freedom, though a good thing, is simply not the only good thing in life.
No, but it's the one hardest to hold onto.
It's the one without which the others are valueless.
It's the one Governments, ideologies and religions most endanger.
No, I'm not a libertarian of any stripe.
I'm a Goldwater Republican and a pragmatist, and I know that you can't turn your back on any large organization, no matter what it claims, or even believes, it's intentions are.
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This article presents one of the most eloquent and erudite straw man arguments I have seen in quite a while.
Perhaps someday it might even apply to someone who actually exists.
In the meantime, it's more fuel for the fires of extremism that helped convert me, in the case of Free Republic, from a lurker into a contributing member, then back into a non-contributing occasional lurker that rarely bothers to lurk anymore.
For those who consider such a thing a victory, I point to what the Democrats are doing to themselves, and Republicans are now sadly beginning to do in turn.
If you choose to eat your own, you will eventually run out of things to eat.
Even a “Liberdopian” makes a better ally than an enemy, although that notion seems lost on some who should know better, but cannot be bothered to see past their own obnoxious and simple-minded insularity.
Here I see the spectacle of those who prize liberty being ridiculed for doing so by those who should respect themselves enough to realize their own hypocrisy.
I would love to know what our esteemed founding fathers would have to say about such a shameful display.
Actually, they wrote at great length about it, but so many of their ersatz worshipers don't seem to consider the actual opinions of the founding fathers to be relevant anymore.
They just mouth the words while following the herds.
Radicalism, fundamentalism and intolerance of dissent all lead to the same place, regardless of where you start out from, whether Marxist, Libertarian or Conservative.
Insulting and alienating those who differ on some points but agree on others is a recipe for isolation and ultimate oblivion, and I will have no part of it.
Mark my words well, because you are unlikely to read many more of them here.
Libertarianism is also a quasi religious cult i.e. Holy Books with Rand's revelations, miracles, an Apocalypse complete with a saved elect, the fallen woman that loved much. It even has present day disciples! Really rather interesting as one could expand the theme almost endlessly.