17th July 2015, 11:53 AM
Quote:Weltall: The point of libertarianism is liberty and self-ownership. These are very similar concepts, but I say them both because "liberty" best implies our universal rights, those being rights that can apply to all people and do not contradict themselves... thus leading to freedom from violation. And the term "self-ownership" implies responsibility for one's actions taken.
After many years of interacting with libertarians and really understanding the implications, I have come to the conclusion that the point of libertarianism is to pretend that financial success is exclusively the result of one's own individual efforts, so that they can justify refusing to contribute to the benefit of a society that is actually absolutely necessary and vital to everyone's individual success. Libertarians want to remove government from the picture because the government helps other people. It's actually a really awful and short-sighted philosophy that would never work in practice.
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