I think libertarians are hardwired in the same way everybody is hardwired. Exceptions are distributed across the whole political spectrum; they are not concentrated in any particular political group.
The natural tendency to altruism in practice leads to behaviors which benefit the common good at certain expense to the individual. But it depends on the cooperation of other individuals. This is codified in morality or in law such as taxes for common government or common defense. But there are examples farther afield, such as a national highway system, where libertarians often break with conservatives, but which provide a good argument that the common good benefits the individual more than an individually directed effort ever could.
I think libertarians are hardwired in the same way everybody is hardwired. Exceptions are distributed across the whole political spectrum; they are not concentrated in any particular political group.
Your baiting 'cooperation' comment to libertarians at #1 belies your comment here.
The natural tendency to altruism in practice leads to behaviors which benefit the common good at certain expense to the individual. But it depends on the cooperation of other individuals. This is codified in morality or in law such as taxes for common government or common defense.
Libertarians do not oppose a common constitutional government. - Like the one we orginally had. -- Why do you think otherwise?
But there are examples farther afield, such as a national highway system, where libertarians often break with conservatives, but which provide a good argument that the common good benefits the individual more than an individually directed effort ever could.
'Conservatives' like you, use such examples of radical big 'L' thought to divert attention away from the socialistic aspects of the 'common good'. Why is that?