Anarchists: "It& #39;s possible to create bottom-up solutions to collective action problems without the state, indeed *better* than the state, through pro-social cooperation and aggressive boycott dynamics."

Libertarians: "Asking me not to cough on everyone is tyranny!!!"

I& #39;m a hardline individualist, but by that I& #39;ve always meant a centering of individual agency and rejection of collective decisionmaking or fetishizing abstractions like organizations & groups. It has never meant rejecting altruism or running roughshod over others.

Six months in and I& #39;m still freshly astounded every time by "fuck em, I& #39;ve got the right to spread around the plague" takes by libertarians. This shit is bananas. The exact opposite of individual responsibility.