Is there a general term for the belief that people are basically good? (request: actual answers not obvious jokes about how that sort of viewpoint is naive!)
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In practice modern movement-libertarianism operates on the principle that people are inherently bad & need to be restrained by threat of deadly force.
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Well modern right-leaning contains the same less-than-sympathetic principle of other right-ideologies: People with no money are lazy and deserve what they get.
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Right. As a Libertarian, I believe in the right to bear arms so that I can protect myself from other good people. I fully expect to be quoted out of context with this tweet. Make my day.
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Most practitioners I've seen are quite the cynical opposite, more in the mold of Ayn Rand.
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Libertarians have good ideas, but pure libertarians are naive imo. Just as we can't run a society based on collectivization and socialism, it's equally mad to assume we can run one off selfishness and individualism. Assuming people are good is humanism, we aren't.
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