• @[email protected]
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    85 months ago

    I’ve yet to ever meet or speak with a libertarian that had any respectable amount of intelligence.

    • NielsBohron
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      5 months ago

      I’ll disagree, slightly. They can also be:

      • starting from flawed premises (aka “The world is a just place” or “a just god exists”)
      • Inexperienced edgelords
      • Arguing in bad faith (or just “I’ve got mine, so fuck you”)

      I say this as someone who flirted with libertarianism in my early 20’s due mostly to a conservative religious upbringing. I’m not super smart, but I flatter myself to say that I’m above average intelligence and education, and there was still a brief time in my life when libertarianism served like a valid ideology. It took actually reading some objectivist philosophy and simultaneously reexamining and then rejecting my religious background before the flaws became evident.

      • @Seleni
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        35 months ago

        So rather, a lack of a reasonable amount of wisdom then.

        • NielsBohron
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          Yeah, that’s a decent way to put it. Or a lack of a reasonable amount of empathy.

          Edit: libertarians are Prosperity Gospel paladins with wisdom as their dump stat.