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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it’s the same way when people criticize communism and say it’s because “there’s no freedom” or “no reason to work hard”
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This is a pretty decent level 1 overview, though there's some objections it doesn't cover. I'm looking for a more in depth one still http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/libertarianism.html#A6 …
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Worse is when they assume the libertarian is in favour of slavery or big business controlling countries. No that is exactly what we are against.
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I think when free markets fail to provide goods/opportunities to people who need them, it is an appropriate use of government power. For example, without Medicaid, there doesn’t seem to be much of a supply (charitable, volunteer, etc) of healthcare services for poor people.
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Possibly. But the first step is to ask whether it's free markets that "fail" in the first place. This is usually not true. We do not have a free market in health care, so you can't lay blame for the ills of health care entirely at the feet of the market.
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Bit of a libertarian myself( European style ;-) but the strongest case against 100% libertarianism is, for me, cases of calamities( for example a pandemic, or a war) where you really do need an effective( bit not necessarily big) government
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Fwiw my libertarianism views war as one of the few actual warranted uses of government. I'm a bit less clear about pandemics tho.
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1/I'm a non-dogmatic, non-partisan libertarian, more or less, and I've been listening to the same bad arguments against it for decades.
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2/The usual (not always, but usual) pattern, is this: Government interferes with the market in some ways, and causes problems. E.g., drug criminalization. Licensing. Tax distortions. People say, Ah ha! The market doesn't work, and support more government.
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