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Why is libertarianism so infallible?

Name: Anonymous 2007-06-04 7:05 ID:qJENOkNb

It is due to it being the application of political science. It does not permit failed policies to be continued fruitlessly year after year with idealistic fervour, it is next to impossible for anyone surrounded by fierce libertarian critics to continue clinging on to lies. It is a purely functional machine, lubricated with justice and fueled by free speech.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-01 16:00 ID:HvkXopvQ

>The hypothetical situations you list are too outrageous warrant a response.

No. If power is given to the states (where I agree it belongs), abortion will be made illegal in most states, and others will fund it with taxpayers dollars (as they are already doing). Similar things will happen with drugs. These are not outrageous situations at all.

At least you've gotten back to libertarian ideology. You want to get rid of the EPA, FDA, etc. Then what happens to the environment? Sure, we can still have all the laws that are in place, but nobody will enforce them. You say you "enjoy a little risk" with your food. Good for you. In China, there's so few controls on what goes into the food that 7 year old boys are growing beards from the hormones.

>People will get fucked over. People's lives will be ruined, some will flee in panic as the nanny state disappears and they are left to find jobs and pay bills and, cherish the thought, pay for the food they eat.

Yes, people will get fucked over, but you seem to think that Americans are all lazy welfare cases. Once the "nanny state" disappears, everyone's wages will go down because of a lack of corporate regulation. Kids will be sent to work in sweatshops instead of college so that they can have food to each (cherish the thought), not that they'll be able to go to college anyways without public universities and government grants.

A lot of lives will be ruined, but whose lives will actually improve? Am I wrong to think that this should be the point of a sweeping change of government's purpose? In your libertarian utopia, it looks like for every one CEO's son who gets to smoke pot while watching CP at his personal movie theater, there's thousands of already hard-working Americans who will see their lives degrade into that of a Chinese peasant.

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