RE: which part of it do you disagree with?

Posted on: January 19, 2017 at 13:42:01 CT

It is sometimes too simplistic and in the interests of philosophical purity is often inflexible and dysfunctional and more to the point, does not offer any solution, much less a good one.

Pickle's incoherent babblings aside, here's an example. Most libertarians, apparently, believe in open borders, presumably as decreed by Rand and others. That, taken to extreme, means in effect a country may lose control of its governance and certainly finanacial sustainability.

For gov't to avoid taking money from some to aid others, in the interests of libertarian philosophy, is dysfunctional in many ways. If it didn't, we would have the blind wandering the streets until they starved to death. We would have the dangerously insane wandering the streets, but attacking whatever they wished. And in pickle world, no cops to prevent them.

And please don't bring up this "charity from volunteers" crap that I hear, as if that would be adequate. My examples could go on all day. Maybe you get the idea.