Behavioral consequences are largely theoretical to a person who has thus far been spared the necessity of having to deal with them. It is only with the cumulative experience of maintaining mature relationships, employment, raising children, and managing a household budget that the big light bulb tends to go on, illuminating truths hidden to many, if not most younger people.
The other group of Libertarians (or I should say Liberaltarians) that I see are upper class or middle-upper class men who are liberal Democrats who can't bring themselves to call themselves liberal Democrats.
They call themselves Libertarians, but they vote Democrat, support Democrats, and bash Republicans and conservatives. (Real Libertarians just bash Republicans and conservatives - they are silent about Democrats...)
Their patron saint is Bill Mahr (who also calls himself Libertarian, but is really nothing more than a socialist liberal Democrat.)
With the Liberaltarians, there's not a dime's bit of difference between them and the Democrats (to use a variation of a phrase the Libertarians are very fond of).
To me, a true test as to whether one is a Libertarian or a Liberaltarian is to ask them if they are for "universal" government run health care. If they say yes, they are Liberaltarians (and you would be suprised at how many people who call themselves Libertarians will say yes).
Behavioral consequences are largely theoretical to a person who has thus far been spared the necessity of having to deal with them. It is only with the cumulative experience of maintaining mature relationships, employment, raising children, and managing a household budget that the big light bulb tends to go on, illuminating truths hidden to many, if not most younger people.
Mm-hmm, right.
40-year old man, married 17 years to the same woman, raising three children, born-again Christian libertarian checking in.
Just in case you weren't aware that we exist. I find that libertarianism is the political philosophy most compatible with my Christian faith.
Behavioral consequences are largely theoretical to a person who has thus far been spared the necessity of having to deal with them. It is only with the cumulative experience of maintaining mature relationships, employment, raising children, and managing a household budget that the big light bulb tends to go on, illuminating truths hidden to many, if not most younger people.
29 year old, unmarried, libertarian who votes republican here.
Although I fail to see your point. Are you saying that when I have kids I will find statism and the drug war somehow reasonable?
Keep in mind I pay the same taxes that you do (a month's pay per year on property taxes that pay for the schooling of kids that I don't have), and that my vote counts just as much as yours. Your ballot is not weighted because of the number of kids you have or how many life lessons you think you've learned.