Coach wrote:Glad I could clear this up for you.
Actually, my view of your view is clearer.
First, there was the fallacy of the Straw Man: me 'blaming' Libertarians for the Taliban. Then there is the difference between what is posted and what the 'platform' is. Searching 'libertarian bigotry profit' got me only six million hits. This reflects the difference in America between principle and practice.
Tucker damns “libertarian brutalists” because they aspire to liberty so that they may freely live out their lives as boors. He specifically singles out racists, anti-Semites and misogynists, but he could just as easily be talking about people who are intolerant of believers or prejudiced against proletarians. In Tucker’s view it is not quite enough for libertarians to want to bring about a libertarian system. He asserts that because liberty allows for a great many practical outcomes that may be inspiring as well as ugly, it is likewise important what the supporters of liberty intend to do with their freedom.
It should be first noted that libertarianism is an extremely poor choice of political philosophy for a boor worth his salt to pick up and champion.
link:
http://thelibertarianliquidationist.com ... ainst-sin/
By seeking to remove .gov from the market, Libertarians remove the last able check on human greed. As .gov becomes smaller and smaller due to defunding of the social safety net, greed is allowed more and more free reign.
We have to note the recent budget just to see: Wall Street and Big Banks will again be able to transfer more tax dollars to their own private accounts because the new CRomnibus bill removes the recently-placed checks on Big Banks being able to gamble on Wall Street with someone else's money. Moreover, we see in several states what happens when the .gov's ability to enforce pension agreements becomes weakened due to this same effect: the states get to steal pension funds for purposes not intended. The old and sick become defunded while Big Finance becomes further engorged with others' monies.
This is the result of the practice of American Libertarianism, which obviously and clearly differs from the principles of Libertarianism: once the check on greed is removed, greed runs unchecked. The weak are crushed. I reject any practice supportive of that sequence of events.
This is why those who support the American practice outlined above must resort to fallacies and distractions: greed is indefensible. While freedom may remain untidy, liberty is fair.
CDFingers