How Libertarianism Fails

[rangerrebew]

July 3, 2019
How Libertarianism Fails
By Allen Gindler

Modern libertarianism is founded on ideas of the prevalence of individual rights, privacy, and respect for private property and the absolute negation of coercion and involuntary restrictions toward sovereign individuals.  Traditionally, compulsion is associated with the institution of the state, which libertarians consider a necessary evil.

However, we should not forget that the emergence of the state logically follows from the libertarian philosophy itself.  It recognizes that humans are lawful owners of their bodies and consciousness and varying in their physical and mental abilities.  At the same time, all humans are born free and equal before the laws of the land; they are endowed with natural rights in their pursuit of happiness.  The delicate interplay of nature and nurture results in a whole pallet of skills that differentiates people in their commercial undertakings.  It feeds the specialization and division of labor at different levels, from the primitive division between the sexes to the global division of labor.

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[Absalom]

Libertarianism fails because it was a fad of the French Enlightenment beloved of revolutionary
neurotics, among them Diderot, Rousseau and St. Just; who exalted freedom above all virtue.
The Ancients knew in their soul that self-discipline, responsibility, work, courage, honesty,
and perseverance; to name a few, were the bedrock of all enduring cultures/societies.

[Fishrrman]

Libertarians...
Almost as worthless and useless as are pacifists.

[roamer_1]

libertarianism is the ground floor of American Conservatism.
Why it fails, at least theoretically, is because it requires a people that are natively good.
That is inherently wrong minded, and why Conservatism informs the libertarian mind with the Judeo-Christian ethic. Without it, libertarianism must inevitably slip into anarchy.

[Absalom]

libertarianism is the ground floor of American Conservatism.
Why it fails, at least theoretically, is because it requires a people that are natively good.
That is inherently wrong minded, and why Conservatism informs the libertarian mind with the Judeo-Christian ethic. Without it, libertarianism must inevitably slip into anarchy.

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Respectfully disagree.
Conservatism is a body of enduring principles governing human
conduct derived from Man's nature, as reflected in the Nature Law.
Libertarianism has nothing to do w/conservatism and never had,
being little more than another fad of the Enlightenment, exalting
freedom as the apogee of Man's existence.!!!

[truth_seeker]

Why?

1. Blame America Harry Browne (after 9-11-2001)

2. Gary Aleppo Johnston (420)