A trivialization of libertarianism. Nonetheless, the author is correct in his critical judgment of narcissism.
Yeah, yeah... libertarians are narcissistic... save it for someone who cares about the equivocal charge.
The author must be born after the time of the fall of The Berlin wall.
There are several ideas that the author does not grasp.
The usage of the term, “Yeah, whatever!” , to describe
Libertarian ideas is as insane, as that term, itself. There
are points to cross:
Libertarians cannot think, if so, Jefferson’s mandate
to stand and question the Creator, could NOT be comprehended
by a non-thinking portion of society!
Relationships viewed as contracts, instead of covenants,
remove ALL the thousands of years of espoused responsibilities
built into them by society, itself. It removes the heart of
the matter, the individual’s heart, mind and spirit from that
bonding, and lowers a relationship to a business attitude
of profit and loss, and lowers any sired children to a commodity
bargaining chips, or worse, tools of The State.
No common good ideology??? The byword that Libertarianism
espouses is Freedom. The “common good” has been
hijacked, in opposition to, “What is good for the future
of the nation,, the next generation?”, as opposed. to
the common good, for me, for right now, which used to
be titled ‘situational ethics’, “what does it matter?”
Legal drug use???? I’m a child of the ‘60’s. My father was a
motorcyclin’, snortin’, sob before I was born. I’m a milvet, from
the days when the hippie drug culture was all over the place.
From what I have witnessed, ain’t no way I support that!
What pornography limits does the author infer???
Again, the author must be referring to the tattered fringes
of pornography laws, or those referring to sodomy,
for there aren’t many left, as I remember them.
For the record, personally, I do not and cannot place my approval
on any of this movement of legal homosexual unions. It
is an insult against society’s basic tenet, the propogation
of the next generation of that society and the future
of the bloodline.
In all, the author’s guesstimation of the Libertarian
Ideology, reads more as something from a Soviet
Proletariat, than from a mind raised in the land of
the free and the home of the brave.
Most of the comments seem to confuse the views of the book’s author, David Boaz, with those of the reviewer.
Libertarians believe we can have a robust, free-market economy without that pesky “moral foundation.” How wrong they are.