Yeah,
I hear what you’re saying, and I see a lot of Libertarian-doubters have similar issues with the philosophy. You can point to a specific situation and say “Libertarianism doesn’t work here. Libertarianism must be trash.” But really I’ve been seeing the same thing with other competing philosophies right? Like “Our world is a mess. This is what Capitalism does? Capitalism is trash.” And then right wing people say “look at the communism in Venezuela. Is this what the Left wants? Communism is trash”
And the Libertariand are all “its not TRUE Libertarianism”
It’s not TRUE capitalism
It’s not TRUE communism
Etc.
But really it’s just a lot of arguing over small matters that necessarily arise between people who hold different philosophies. There are some people who legitimately believe that governments are better equipped to decide what people need and better equipped to provide those needs to individuals. Others believe that the individual knows best and is in a better position to provide. Because of this one simple outlook on life there are necessarily thousands of differences in opinions about daily life choices, controls, limitations etc simply because of a higher disagreement. Yes, people find the non-aggression principle to be useless, but we Libertarians find war-making and unprovoked aggression to be less beneficial than peace, mutual cooperation, and the resulting division of labor.
Yeah, I hear what you’re saying, and I see a lot of Libertarian-doubters have similar issues with the philosophy. You can point to a specific situation and say “Libertarianism doesn’t work here. Libertarianism must be trash.” But really I’ve been seeing the same thing with other competing philosophies right? Like “Our world is a mess. This is what Capitalism does? Capitalism is trash.” And then right wing people say “look at the communism in Venezuela. Is this what the Left wants? Communism is trash” And the Libertariand are all “its not TRUE Libertarianism” It’s not TRUE capitalism It’s not TRUE communism Etc. But really it’s just a lot of arguing over small matters that necessarily arise between people who hold different philosophies. There are some people who legitimately believe that governments are better equipped to decide what people need and better equipped to provide those needs to individuals. Others believe that the individual knows best and is in a better position to provide. Because of this one simple outlook on life there are necessarily thousands of differences in opinions about daily life choices, controls, limitations etc simply because of a higher disagreement. Yes, people find the non-aggression principle to be useless, but we Libertarians find war-making and unprovoked aggression to be less beneficial than peace, mutual cooperation, and the resulting division of labor.