Libertarianism

General Overview of Beliefs: Libertarians in a general sense agree with the following concepts. ·	Support for Civil Liberties ·	Opposition to Coercive Force ·	Small Government ·	Low Taxes ·	Emphasis on Private Property

Pitfalls of Libertarianism: The basic concepts sound good right. Libertarianism is kind of like a chick that looks great from far away and you get her attention run up to her your about to ask for her number and it turns out she is fugly, even though she looked so good from far away. Libertarians are supporters of completely unchecked corporate power. It’s great for the 1% of the population that can get into the upper level jobs probably because mommy daddy where rich and paid them through school. Think of it as a lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose- lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose- lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose- lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose- lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose- lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose- lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose- lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose- lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose- lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-lose-win situation. Libertarians are opposed to Universal Health Care because it is more ethical to allow wealth to determine who lives or dies. Libertarians are opposed to the Civil Rights act because it’s unethical to prevent a privately owned business from discriminating against their customers on the basis of race. Libertarians are opposed to Accountable Institutions instead they of having the government hold media and corporations accountable they should allow the industry to regulate them selves, if you cant trust corporations and mass media who can you trust. Libertarians are opposed to people reaching their Full Potential it would be unethical to provide other people in your society with same opportunities instead you should allow class, gender, race, and income to determine your potential.

Libertarian Logic Libertarianism is a logically consistent approach to politics based on the moral principle of self-ownership. Each individual has the right to control his or her own body, action, speech, and property. Government's only role is to help individuals defend themselves from force and fraud. Libertarians are a kind of business worshiping cult, which churns out annoying flamers who resemble nothing so much as street-preachers that can be found in every internet forum trying to get knew converts. In order to understand how one gets from the "moral principles" above to the sort of fanatical proselytizing found in chat rooms and blogs everywhere, it is important understand how the ideology works from theory to practice. Libertarianism is axiomatic. Note how the above quote touts its “logically consistent approach.” There's a set of rules to be applied to evaluate what is proper, and the outcome given is the answer that is correct in terms of the “moral principle” of the theory. Are the religious thinking connections starting to become evident? The rules are simple and tight enough to produce surprisingly uniform positions compared to common political philosophies. Libertarians are for "individual rights", and against "force" and "fraud" - just as THEY define it. Their use of these words, however, when examined in detail, is not likely to accord with the common meanings of these terms. What person would proclaim themselves in favor of "force and fraud"? One of the little tricks Libertarians use in debate is to confuse the ordinary sense of these words with the meaning as "terms of art" in Libertarian axioms. They try to set up a situation where if you say you're against "force and fraud", then obviously you must agree with Libertarian ideology, since those are the definitions. If you are in favor of "force and fraud", well, isn't that highly immoral? So you're either one of them, or some sort of degenerate (note the cultish aspect again), one who doesn't think "force and fraud must be banished from human relationships". Let’s take a look at an example of what it is like to talk to a idiot-flamer-libertarian Example 1 The axiom: no person should initiate the use of force against another person. Taxation is undesirable since the coercive force of the state backs it. Do you agree, or do you disagree, that it is always wrong for one person to initiate force against another? If you disagree, then you disagree with the fundamental concept of libertarianism. On the other hand, if you agree with the proposition, yet you still don't like the conclusions that libertarians draw from it, then we can refocus our attention on the chain of logic that leads to those conclusions and find where you feel the weak link is. From looking at the example above you could say it's an "agree or disagree" where "initiate force" is implied to be the Libertarian definition. And it's justified by the axioms (chain of logic). The idea that Libertarians don't believe in the initiation of force is pure propaganda. They believe in using force as much as anyone else, if they think the application is “morally correct.” “Initiation of force" is Libertarian term meaning essentially "do something improper according to Libertarian ideology". It isn't even connected much to the actions we normally think of as "force". The question being asked above was really agree or disagree, that it is always wrong for one person to do something improper according to the libertarian ideology. Example 2 While you might be told Libertarianism is about individual rights and freedom, fundamentally, it's about business. The words "individual rights", in the context of the libertarian ideology means business.   Since governments, when instituted, must not violate individual rights, we oppose all interference by government in the areas of voluntary and contractual relations among individuals. The whole idea of a contract is that government enforces relations among individuals. The above sentence doesn’t make sense, it's conceptually that they oppose all interference by government in the areas of government enforcing relations among individuals. The key to understanding this, and to understanding Libertarianism itself, is to realize that their concept of individual freedom is the right to have the state protect the business. Literally freedom is slavery; the state should protect the business instead of the state protecting the person. Too some it all up libertarians are cultish-idiot-flamers who worship business under the false pretenses of freedom.