They want the right to do anything they please but no one should have the right to do anything that impacts them.
A couple years ago there was a big libertarian-riling deal here in North Idaho: we've got areas up here where there are rows of hobby farms. Some guy who lived in one of those areas had a pack of large dogs on his land. The dogs were acting like...well, a pack of dogs...and disturbing his neighbors' horses with their constant barking. Eventually it got bad enough that the neighbors got a judge to order the dog owner to either control or reduce the pack so as to keep from stressing out the horses.
A few weeks after this happened came the North Idaho Fair and Goat Roping Contest. The Democratic Party has a fair booth that I work every year. I was in the booth registering voters just as fast as I could, and one of our libertarians came up to complain about how it's so terrible that The Government should have been allowed to tell this guy to get rid of his dogs. You should be able to do anything you want on your property. No one should be able to tell anyone how to use his land.
At this point I was just disgusted with the guy, so I asked him: you know that guy who owns the portable asphalt plant and can't find anywhere in the county that will let him set it up? If he bought the land next to yours and started making asphalt, would that be okay with you? All of a sudden the situation was different: no one should be allowed to do that by his land.
"Then what makes your nose more important than their horses?"
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