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Testing whether our libertarian friends have a sense of humor or not...

Absolutely! The picture was funnier than the article, but both were amusing.

WRT:

And so there’s not one single party in the political system tailor-made for an eight-foot, forest-dwelling hairy primate that skulks unknown at the margins of human civilization and whose animalistic notion of personal conduct is completely unbounded by any semblance of moral order and self-discipline.

I have two problems. One, there is nothing in the Libertarian philosophy that eliminates moral order or self-discipline. In fact, in many ways, Libertarianism would strengthen those.

The real issue is that a Libertarian believes that those should source from the people, not the government. That's all.

Second, Libertarians are at the margins politically, to be sure, but philosophically I think there are far more of us than is obvious. The basic premise of personal liberty and personal responsibility combined with minimal government is a fairly popular view by anyone who doesn't need the government to force their morals on others.

The basic premise of personal liberty and personal responsibility combined with minimal government is a fairly popular view anyone who doesn't need the government to force their morals on others.

But you see, that's where libertarians go off the rails. When you get down to the level of local governments passing statutes that the people vote for, you're not so much talking about a big, impersonal governing body as the right of localities to make the rules they live under.

As we have it now, it's the big, impersonal government which comes along--usually in the form of federal judges--and says: no prayer in public schools, boyscouts must admit homosexuals, you must accept homosexual tennants in your properties, all Christian symbols must be removed from public places, you must allow an adult video store to open in your town square, you may not put porn-filters on your public library's computers, you may not outlaw abortion, sodomy is a civil right, etc.

We live in an age where government is enforcing their immorality on an unwilling populace which, in any sane world, is orders of magnitude worse than the government actually trying to enforce moral behavior in accord with Natural Law.