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In reply to the discussion: Introducing the Libertarian Democrat. Are You One? [View all]Rebkeh
(2,450 posts)but I agree, and it's sad the millenials buy into it, young people always have. It was popular when I was young too, and when my older brothers were that age. It seems to cycle through every generation. In high school and college, this ideology was everywhere but people eventually realized how bad it is for the long term. The same will happen here.
In a perfect world where everyone is kind, generous and fair, it might work, hypothetically, but even then I question it. We are stronger as a collective anyway. Hyper focus on the Individual is just a recipe for eventual disaster due to competing interests - and that's if the world was a nice place. There's nothing progressive, and I use the term literally, about libertarianism. It's quite the opposite, it's regressive.
...selfishness has a price.
Indeed.