Please reconcile these things for me

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11. Was that the extent of the comment?

It could be that the person is just a poor writer and stuck together two sentences that are not necessarily related. I suppose that I could be a libertarian and attempt to have civil discourse and have some empathy for people, and decry the state of our discourse.

Libertarians idealistically believe that disputes should be managed by individuals from a place of "enlightened self interest". The reality is that many Libertarians are such because they have monetary or social advantages and have a mentality of wanting to capitalize in those advantages to increase their power/wealth/advantage in other words, they are greedy.

There is no economic/political ideology that work in a pure form over a certain population, though most adherents will try to argue that theirs does. Human beings are too complex to be governed by one system. Society should have elements that foster welfare, productivity, empathy, order, and equity, and liberty; and sometimes those things are diametrically opposed to each other.

If however, the writer was specifically implying that Libertarianism is a mechanism that fosters empathy, then they are mistaken and the statements do not follow logically.