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.
I’ve yet to ever meet or speak with a libertarian that had any respectable amount of intelligence.
I’ll disagree, slightly. They can also be:
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.
So rather, a lack of a reasonable amount of wisdom then.
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.