@Jason - You're a Libertarian? (Do you prefer the capital L, or lower-case?) What do you think of Cap'n'Trade?
If you look, you will eventually find that words mean things.
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There you go again, making shit up to fit your narrative on what those evil liberartarians believe.
If it makes you feel better, I regard most libertarians as too stupid to be "evil." But you do you, and keep your tunnel vision.
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The word "Democrat" has three silent k's.
I'm not making shit up. The remark I paraphrased was one of the SMARTER things said by the self-professed libertarians on that board.
For someone seeming to be eager to help us understand "liberartarians" (whether evil or not), it's odd you couldn't answer a simple question. I've reddened it and increased the font in case you couldn't see it before.
Mister Harvestdancer doesn't seem eager to answer questions narrowing the definition of "libertarian" so I'll report some of the views from the other message board.
I labeled some of these people "hyperlibertarian" but in the absence of Jason's permission I'll just follow their self-label "libertarian."
One was a disciple of Murray Rothbard. (Though born in the Bronx, he was a leader of the "Austrian school.") In Rothbard's view police should have the Freedom to torture suspects. If the suspect withstands the torture without confessing and isn't convicted then he has the Freedom to sue the police for torturing an innocent. IIRC Rothbard gives parents total control over their non-adult children, including right to murder.
The Rothbard disciple wasn't quite sure whether police should be allowed to torture, or that there would be no need for police at all! The one thing he was sure of is that police, if any, should be private profit-making enterprises. Food inspections, courts of law, etc. were also private profit-making enterprises in his utopia. Before entering a restaurant, a customer would read up on which food inspection agency, if any, the restaurant used, and which private court would handle subsequent litigation. You'd Google on your smart-phone to see what your insurer thought about these agencies; though of course the restaurant would have the Freedom to operate a local DNS to reroute your Googlings. Ain't Freedom wonderful!
I used smallpox eradication and flood control in a large plain as examples where government proves helpful. One said he should have the Freedom to decide whether his kids got vaccinated for smallpox (but HE was going to vaccinate HIS kids). Smallpox eradication seemed like tragic Naziist over-reach to him.
My question about flood control drew several hilarious responses. Perhaps the funniest of all came from a libertarian who didn't see floods as a threat to farmers: the farmers simply needed to place bets on rainfall at the Chicago Board of Trade. With careful design of hedging bets, floods should become a don't-care for the farmer.
Rothbard and Friedman are two famous "libertarians," but I think they hated each other' guts. Friedman originated the whole "QE" concept (a form of money creation via printing presses) which many "libertarians" denounce as Bolshevist or "Let's Go Brandon" or whatever their latest gibberish meme is. If you Google present-day American politicians who self-identify as "libertarian," you'll mostly find dope smokers ... or people for whom dope smoking would be an improvement.
So how about it, Jason? Which of these libertarians fit in with your views? I can't guess. Jason won't even answer the very simple question above. I've increased the font size and changed the color from red to blue. Will that help?