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Originally Posted by LadyShea
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Originally Posted by seebs
I'm not sure that real ones would be evil. Wrong as to fact claims, I'd buy, but "evil" is a question of intent, not of ability to predict future outcomes.  |
"What's mine is mine and fuck you" is a pretty evil mindset, don't you think? |
That's the fake ones who claim to value liberty because it's a good cover for what they want. The real ones would be the ones who were consistent about valuing liberty for other people as well, for instance. And I don't think that's straight-up evil. Likely to produce bad outcomes, sure.
Keep in mind, at least one subset of "libertarians" is people who are themselves inclined to be generous, and who simply assume that, if the government weren't taking all this money to pay for social programs, people would do it individually with a lot less bureaucratic overhead. That was my assumption for a long time; I was genuinely surprised to find that most people who can consistently feed themselves don't
usually have at least one or two freeloaders that they're covering for. I mean, why wouldn't you?
Answer: Because other people are not all like me.