ITT All the reasons, rational, logical and otherwise, to hate libertarians. All different forms and colors, no discrimination.
I go first.
Libertarians suck because they think that clearly defined ownership rights is enough to stop crime.
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Anonymous2007-09-09 3:26 ID:NVtcrzYU
Libertarians are inherently anti-democratic.
They are motivated purely by their own self-interest and have no cares for anyone else in society or society itself. The Libertarian model of society is that of cold logical automatons, operating independently with no thought to human psychology, dreams or natural justice.
Read any Ayn Rand novel for proof of this. Pure revenge fantasy, which is why Libertarianism appeals so much to the nerds on the Internet. They live under the delusion that if everyone was forced to fend for themselves, they'd become kings rather then the peasants they are now.
Game theory suggests that though a single malevolent individual may accomplish more then an equivalent benevolent individual. However that breaks down when a group of benevolent individuals can accomplish far more then one or many malevolent individuals. Libertarians don't acknowledge the concept of "Society" exists, and hence can't see the forest from the trees.
Could man have travelled to the moon under Libertarianism? After all, there are plenty of fields in science such as astronomy, theoretical physics and environmental studies that benifit mankind as a whole despite little or no profit motive.
Libertarians love to claim that people are held captive to a "Nanny State", which they believe their own "rugged individualism" can replace. This is outright false. Libertarians state "Why should someone else care for me, I can care for myself!", yet every day they benifit from infrastructure paid for by other people, businesses that employ publicly educated people and defence by volunteer police and military paid for by other people.