I think that the Libertarians are quite clear about their moral order - human beings are not chattel for the government or other people do use as they please.
In a time requiring long views and self-denial, alliance with a faction founded upon doctrinaire selfishness would be absurd-and practically damaging.
Odd using the term "self-denial". Only the libertarian ideal could delayed gratification be considered self-denial. The statist beliefs of the other parties would be best described as "other-denial" - i.e. you can't have that because I'm in charge.
collective adversaries of ordered freedom
"Ordered Freedom"? The author just sprained my Orwell-to-English dictionary.
LOL... excellent.
(I) thought that I could organise freedom
how scandinavian of me
Bjork, Hunter
Under the libertarian concept of individual responsibility, self-denial is sometimes required to reap a greater reward later, or to meet the obligations one has freely assumed in an agreement with others.
Under the statist view of the world... well, I simply don't know how to explain it better than the grand high queen of that worldview:
"Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you... We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you.
We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
--Hillary Rodham Clinton