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Libertarians help people. They just want to do it consciously by their own volition.

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Yes, that’s how helping people works.

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Not sure where the controversy here is.

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The controversy begins with Ayn Rand saying altruism is evil and ends with people like you who think help is something that can be forced and that it’s still help when it’s forced.

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It’s like I’m happier when the people around me are happy. If you don’t tread on me, I won’t tread on you.

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People often are not happy if they live in poverty. The libertarian solution to that is essentially “stop being poor.”

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And it works! It does require not shitting on the education systems and getting many other things right. But directly helping poor people clearly doesn’t work in any real way in making them not poor.

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