I'm pretty libertarian, and open to discussion around it; I've updated my views before and acknowledge there are weaknesses. But most people responding on twitter are making arguments based on significant misunderstanding or straw men of my libertarianism views.
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And again, to clearly reiterate - I'm not saying there aren't good arguments against libertarianism out there! But by and large, most of the people in my mentions seem to be stuck on level 1 understanding and critique and it's pretty frustrating.
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How, is that different from communists who are sure it would work if only it was done right? It's all faith based right? We have no evidence of this hypothesis panning out, and any time we move in that direction it's a disaster (see e.g. Kansas experiment recently).
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My complaint here is about people criticizing an inaccurate version, what they think libertarianism says but doesn't. I also think if you're going to critique communism, you should be familiar with what communists actually believe.
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So without government programs, something else better will take their place? Police/military/healthcare etc? Put their argument out of its misery once and for all Aella.
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If you believe everyone should have access to the goods or services provided by those programs rather than just the number of people that can be served by whatever varying amount of private donations occur, then yes nothing can do it better.
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Please provide any example of private alternative to government programs that can deliver 100% country-wide coverage with the same funding stability as the government program.
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The argument is not "there are no private alternatives". The argument is "all the private alternatives will be either woefully underfunded or provide insufficient coverage".
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It oftentimes is a good critique, though. Maybe there's some elaborate cockamamie way of solving public good problems that doesn't involve a central group of people imposing mandatory fees (i.e., taxes). Curiously, societies generally don't adopt these methods.
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Different places arrive at different solutions to different problems. The current quasi-fascistic hypercentralized state is an atavistic holdover from a particular period of history, and it doesn't work very well.
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What's the counterargument?
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