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treestar

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5. Good post

Reply to Fortinbras Armstrong (Original post)

Mon Jan 13, 2014, 05:11 PM

Jan 2014

Their views on the environmental are clearly delusional. Everyone does not act in their own best interests, or understand their own best interests. That is the idealism behind their fantasy world.

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Libertarianism [View all] Fortinbras Armstrong Jan 2014 OP

Sociopaths have no place in society. GeorgeGist Jan 2014 #1

I agree, but getting rid of them is not going to happen n/t Fortinbras Armstrong Jan 2014 #2

Sociopaths own and run this society, and while I would like that to be otherwise, I don't Egalitarian Thug Jan 2014 #8

I remember when I first encountered Libertarians. The_Commonist Jan 2014 #3

Libertarians are asymmetric jmowreader Jan 2014 #4

That is one of the paradoxes at the heart of libertarianism Fortinbras Armstrong Jan 2014 #9

Good post treestar Jan 2014 #5

Great job of illustrating the absurdity of libertarianism -- using their own words. Martin Eden Jan 2014 #6

A Libertarian is just an anarchist without the balls to commit Prophet 451 Jan 2014 #7

k and r and bookmarking. gads, that is even more depressing than I ever thought. niyad Jan 2014 #10

Bumping this important thread. YoungDemCA Feb 2014 #11

Yesterday, I discovered something called "Chesterton's fence" that libertarians should know Fortinbras Armstrong Jun 2014 #12