These are largely if not completely strawman arguments. This assumes that there is a false binary, no government or unlimited government.YMix wrote:I definitely agree with this. However, most (all?) such ideologies begin as fixes to the society and, hence, can be reduced to "If we did this, things would be so much better". Little thought is usually given to what happens after the fix was applied and to how society would adjust to it. In this respect, radical libertarians are the new socialists/communists, promoting a new miracle cure from within prosperous societies.kmich wrote:You are right, I am prejudiced. Libertarians rest lazily on the social constructions of rule of law and social structures grown through the struggles of their ancestors working together over the centuries in that project.
Libertarianism, Conservatism and the US Founders were/are interested in limited government, that is that by abstract morals that government of any kind has no moral right to engage in certain activity. That government has a right to do certain things and not others. Government with a limit. Not a false binary.
Libertarians are no more or less lazy concerning the civilizing efforts of our ancestors than any other group. They/we would simply like obamacare repealed, options to get out of entitlements and disastrous public schools and so forth.
Nothing really radical about it.