Libertarian: "It's impossible for a private actor acting legally and non-coercively to destroy wealth, since whatever they do necessarily represents their values and therefore maximizes utility"
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Libertarianism is filled with sophistry Leftism is filled with wishful thinking Liberalism is filled with naivety Conservativism is filled with overcommitment Fascism is called "third way" because it somehow has all of these. It's popular by exploiting every bias instead of one
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Leftist: "Surely human diversity implies human malleability! Surely the absence of the specific forms of coercion that are most immediately obvious to me entails the absence of all coercion!"
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Liberalism: "If we just build robust institutions and teach people civic duty we'll have a civilizational perpetual motion machine"
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Conservativism: "If whatever I'm used to has some conceivable justification, it must have absolute and unconditional justification"
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Fascism: "We can build a civiliational perpetual motion machine to uphold this random collection of things with conceivable (and therefore absolute) justification, by making malleable people value fighting against whatever we consider coercive through our own coercion."
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