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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I believe it's a consequence of knowing your ideology is flawed, and that the human condition is such that men will always seek to inflict their personal preferences regarding how they'd like people to behave upon other people. You get a little bitchy.
At its core, libertarian thinking comes down to "leave people alone to do as they will." But then, some people will engage in slavery, sex trafficking, murder, etc., so you can't really follow that rule. So that leads you to putting limits on what's acceptable and what's not. And once you do that, you can't really call yourself a pure libertarian anymore. You've now become someone picking and choosing what other men should and shouldn't be allowed to do.
Libertarians like to think of themselves as enlightened and liberated from the controlling mentalities of conservatism and liberalism. But if they think hard for thirty seconds, they realize they're just another fucked up ideology, an Option C not much unlike A and B.
This is why I have now embraced Anarchism. Say what you will, it's an abstractly defensible ethos.
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Usually, libertarianism is just the belief that you should be free to engage in your own forms of bigotry, but not subject to anyone else's.
Good luck with the Anarchism, it is indeed several steps up on the hierarchy of intellectual conceits.
