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This rant was sparked by seeing this girl I used to [censored] who I no longer talk to but am still facebook friends with just joined this group:
http://umd.facebook.com/group.php?gi...981&ref=nf I mean what the hell, obviously all Libertarians are evil heartless bastards who want all the homeless to starve etc. How is it not obvious that more government = bad? If these retards have more of their money thanks to less taxes they can give the homeless and poor all of that extra money if they want, do more "good" than the government would with taxes and still wind up with the same or more money. I can't even destroy their ignorant liberal attitudes beacuse they don't have a wall or forum arrrgh.
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I think
part of the reason libertarians get this reputation as cold and heartless is because we sometimes have a bad tendency to justify the status quo, existing inequalities and structures, etc. as if they were produced by free markets (eg, the knee-jerk dismissive reaction to leftists complaining about vast economic inequality; we often defend such unequal outcomes, since we oppose govt redistribution, when we might instead attack such outcomes as a product of government intervention).
Anyways, I think this is part of the problem with the libertarian image (and I think it is partly justified); that said, it isn't the
whole problem. Many college leftists don't know much economics and haven't taken the time to really understand where libertarians are coming from (no thanks here to the average university faculty).