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Because Libertarians only ideology is selfishness. They refuse to understand basic concepts that even anarchists and libertarians well understand and acknowledge. Like the fact that sometimes systems need exist. But no matter how well a system it’s designed. It cannot be perfectly equitable, and still requires intervention. Or that the non-aggression principle is nothing but a thought terminating cliche

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I think you meant “non-libertarians” in that second sentence, and how is that any different from the systems in place now?

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No there was a difference. It’s subtle. But it is there. Libertarians with the capital L is a noun. Whereas libertarian with a lowercase l is an adjective. Nouns and adjectives are different. Nouns can be applied to places things and people. Whereas adjectives are generally descriptive of those places things and people.

So it is entirely possible for someone to call themselves Libertarian but not be libertarian. If I named my dog Communism, would my dog be communist? Libertarians rely on this ambiguation as a cover for their true beliefs. And to hear and destroy the reputation of their enemies. People who are actually libertarian.

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I did detect a bit of sarcasm due to my misunderstanding of context. So my bad, but let’s try to refrain from that. I’m not going to be sarcastic with you, but I digress…

Do you have an argument for what else I said?

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You used libertarians as a noun, though.

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I suspect they’re making a distinction between big L Libertarians (i.e. an-caps) and small l libertarians (i.e. mid-19th century left wing libertarians).

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Thank you. It did take them explaining it to me since context is difficult in text

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Indubitably

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