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"The claim is that it's just the right thing to do, that most people will be better off (economically) than under other systems" There it is, that is the ideal

• mindcrime 13y ago
  Not really. I mean, economics is mostly voodoo science anyway, so it's hard to make a lot of objective statements about any of this, but it's hardly a stretch to suggest that laissez-faire free-market policies are generally better for economic growth. But, again, none of this is really the point. Every system is flawed in its own ways, and the libertarian approach simply acknowledges that, rather than trying to distort reality and pretend that a "perfect" system is even theoretically possible.