Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Libertarian Challenges Sam To Most Unproductive Debate Of All Time" video.

  1. ​ @Gee-xb7rt  They aren't talking about lowercase "l" libertarianism, in general. They're talking about far right wing US Libertarianism/Objectivism (Any Rand), sometimes drifting into batshit crazy ancap land. Many on the Murican right, many Republicans, actually pretend to have Libertarian beliefs, and promote those beliefs, but are fascists, when push comes to shove.
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  2. ​ @Gee-xb7rt  And, there is nothing "perfectly good" about Libertarianism/Objectivism.
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  3. ​ @DanNorton1  What smear? She, and her husband, collected social security and medicare.
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  4.  @Gee-xb7rt  Yeah. The fact that she actually opposed lowercase "l" right libertarians (ancappers), and argued that there needed to be a government, with minimal services ... "the police, the armed forces, the law courts" ... leads to her defeating herself. She just asserts that everyone would voluntarily pay taxes for those "necessities", so it wouldn't be involuntary taxes. But, we see, all the time, that people would love to not fund the police, the military, and probably wouldn't want to fund racist or bigoted courts, especially ones that constantly side with the rich, or the prison system, if they had the option. Definitely not some universal truth, that everyone would voluntarily fund those things. The rich would, and would use it to oppress the poor, is what would likely happen ... like calling in the military to bust strikes, or whatnot, like the good ol' days. That's why those things are a "necessity", in her mind ... to protect people with property and wealth. I might argue that capitalism can exist without a "government", but likely not without some kind of force, unless everyone is magically voluntarily following the same belief system. Feudalism, and absolute monarchies, are less "governments" and are more a form of governance, like a major company. They're private property owners, with their hired private armies, enforcing whatever rules they want on their private property, and charging people whatever they want for the use of their property, resources, etc. I don't consider privately owned and operated "governments" to be real governments.
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  5.  @robinsss  So, the freedom to be able to kill whoever you want, whenever you want, is "good"? All laws limit "freedom". You want zero laws then.
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