| You have fallen for the Reddit caricature--you have no idea what you're talking about. The closest thing you could get to a "pure" libertarian philosophy is that libertarians are against coercion. Whether that coercion is public or private has no bearing. You seem to have distilled libertarians beliefs down to "government bad"--a clear caricature. Many (in my experience most) libertarians support the existence of government to provide services they believe the private sector can't--some don't. And yes, Most libertarians want to limit government and supplement it with voluntary association, but only because they believe that is what's best for mankind, not because of some irrational hatred of government. "Government bad" is not the central tenant of libertarian philosophy, that you think it is. But you seem to know more about what libertarians think than libertarians themselves. Let's take a look at some of your wording. >I just actually know what libertarianism is > I think a libertarian should be... >A true libertarian view is... >I think that people that proclaim to be libertarians don't want to state their true beliefs... The beliefs that fall under the term libertarianism are so varied that libertarians themselves can't agree on a definition--How can you possibly come here and decide what is and isn't a libertarian view? Libertarian beliefs range from anarcho-capitalists to libertarian socialists. Everyone from tea party protesters to Noam Chomsky call themselves libertarians. Libertarians haven't been able to agree on these issues for decades, so it's very kind of you to come here and clear it up so nicely. |