ellauri100.html on line 333: The same goes for jejune libertarians, of all ages, whose narrow rationalism often materializes in rank offensiveness and a tendency toward naive absolutism. (See this and this, for example. And take this, and this!)
ellauri100.html on line 337: If you will bother to read very much of this blog and its predecessor, you will find that I am pro-peace, pro-prosperity, and pro-liberty — positions that leftists and certain libertarians like to claim as theirs, exclusively. Unlike most leftists and more than a few self-styled libertarians, I have seen enough of this world and its ways to know that peace, prosperity, and liberty are achieved when government carries a big stick abroad and treads softly at home (except when it comes to criminals and traitors). Most leftists and many self-styled libertarians, by contrast, engage in “magical thinking,” according to which peace, prosperity, and liberty can be had simply by invoking the words and attaching them to policies that, time and again, have led to war, slow economic growth, and loss of liberty.
ellauri119.html on line 736: Both you and Rand are unaware that our founders were heavily influenced by Greek philosophers who proposed the notion of civic virtue. Civic virtue is the view that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one (Atlas with the world on his shoulders). All libertarians are selfish because their concern is their own liberty and the hell with society.
ellauri476.html on line 184: Olikohan Matilta ja Jilliltä sittenkään järin nokkelaa mennä Minneapolixeen viettämään talvilomia? Vaikka toisaalta onhan New Hampshirekin libertaarien mielivaltio. As of May 2022, approximately 6,232 libertarians have moved to New Hampshire for the Free State Project. "Life, liberty, and property" are rights that were enumerated in the October 1774 Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress and in Article 12 of the New Hampshire Constitution. Vermont was also on the list, but New Hampshire was chosen because the perceived individualist culture of the state was thought to resonate well with libertarian ideals. They have been associated with an increase in the number and aggressiveness of black bears in town, including entering homes, mauling people, and eating pets. Apparently because the libertarians refuse to shit in bear-resistant containers, and do not feel any responsibility for how their behavior affects their neighbors. The main event of the Free State (after closing all the schools was a failure) is The Porcupine Freedom Festival, colloquially referred to as PorcFest, a weeklong summer festival that takes place at a campground. It was described by Libertarian philosophy professor Roderick Long as, "like Woodstock for rational people".
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