Bullshit.

What libertarians want is all of the benefits of civilization and none of the responsibilities. Libertarians are simply conservatives boiled down to "I got mine, so fuck you."

As a political philosophy, libertarianism is a barn full of feral cats. https://twitter.com/TWGammill/status/1041201293472096256">https://twitter.com/TWGammill...

Look here: Libertarianism ONLY works if you have large swaths of unclaimed territory. The disaffected can wander off into the mountains far from civilization, build a cabin, hunt for food, shit in a hole, and murder the indigenous people and invaders with impunity.

Free...

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...from the burden of having to be civilized, free from government, free from taxes and other social obligations, free from law and regulation, free from security, free from any neighbors.

But ...

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...while that idea appeals to those who buy whole-hog into the legend of the American Mountain Man and the idea of Manifest Destiny, the truth of the matter is that in a world of 8 BILLION PEOPLE, that time is long gone.

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Eight Billion people cannot live together without civilization -- and even then, it& #39;s a dicey thing.

The fundamental flaw of libertarianism is that it always begins with "if people would just..."

Guess what?

They won& #39;t just. They won& #39;t. Will NOT.

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I get the appeal of libertarianism, I do. But until there are empty worlds to conquer and an easy way to get there, or until the fundamental nature of humanity changes, libertarianism is utterly non-viable beyond a single selfish individual in the world we live in.

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