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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Libertarians believe we can have a robust, free-market economy without that pesky “moral foundation.” How wrong they are.


13 posted on 05/19/2015 2:16:45 PM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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Anyone who wishes to, can live as a libertarian in today's world.

If you work hard and amass enough wealth then you can use that wealth to move to a country where everything you wish to do is legal. If such a country doesn't exist, you can use your wealth to bribe a country to pass laws legalizing everything you wish to do, or have police look the other way when you are doing illegal things.

That is what the CEO's of major multinational corporations and crime syndicates (is there a difference?) seem to be doing.

If you have some idealistic notion that the majority of humans, if they were in their right minds, would wish to live as libertarians then you are truly delusional. So anyone who is a libertarian ideologue that wastes any time trying to cajole people into voting in libertarian governments is either living in a dream world or smoking too much reefer.

14 posted on 05/19/2015 5:21:21 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: fwdude
Libertarians believe we can have a robust, free-market economy without that pesky “moral foundation.” How wrong they are.

No, they simply believe that this "moral foundation" you speak of ought not be laid and maintained by the state. Social conservatives, on the other hand, seem quite inclined to support use of the state to compel moral behavior.

Liberals also support use of government force to compel their idea of moral behavior, which has led to Christian businesses being forced to pay for abortifacient birth control, serve gays, etc.

Lovely philosophy.

16 posted on 05/26/2015 4:43:50 AM PDT by BearArms
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