Strawman. @MemberOfSpecies: "My friends & I are better decision-makers than govt; therefore, libertarianism." Does this fallacy have a name?
@argumatronic I agree people don't explicitly argue that way, so maybe I should have said "bias" rather than "fallacy".
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@MemberOfSpecies Rightly or wrongly, libertarians prefer people be free to make poor decisions rather than forced to make acceptable ones. -
@argumatronic That's part of it. "Governments sometimes force people to make worse decisions" is another part.
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@MemberOfSpecies There are many ways one can argue that that is misguided, of course, or even immoral. But that wasn't it. -
@argumatronic@MemberOfSpecies Believing goverment is even a major cause of my un-freedom is the 1st libertarian error. The rest follow. - 4 more replies
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