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The Non-Libertarian FAQ (aka Why I Hate Your Freedom)
- kafkaesq 10y agoA valiant attempt. In practice, I find most discussions with Libertarians quickly devolve into endless whack-a-mole sessions (whereby once you've finished deflating one of their arguments, they just change the subject and move onto another) -- never acknowledging that there might, ultimately, be problem with the thought system as a whole. And that even after essentially banking a good chunk of their adult life on it, it still isn't too late to cut their losses, and move on.
- woodandsteel 10y agoThis is a good critique of the more extreme forms of libertarianism. I think a lot of the reason libertarians go wrong is they have a mistaken view of human nature that ties in turn to a mistaken view of the original state of the human human race. The seem to believe humans originally lived apart from each other, and so have the psychology needed for that sort of existence, and only later joined into societies. But actually, the scientists have determined that humans originally lived in small foraging bands, and so have both individual and social instincts, such that a libertarian society simply would not work. A good book on this is Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom, by Paul H. Rubin.