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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 2702186" data-attributes="member: 2189">You can thank [USER=56035]@rickyb[/USER] and his comment, otherwise I had no intention of responding at all to this thread.&nbsp; People tend to define libertarianism or in the case of this thread Libertarianism to their own definitions, not that this is what people typically do anyway, so the point of any real discussion on the issue seemed impossible to result in any consensus from the start.&nbsp; And to be honest, some of the fault lay with people who call themselves Libertarian in the first place.As to your OP and your own definition if you will, in a very general sense, that is a fair observation but like so many things in life, it is also far more nuanced too.&nbsp; The irony in this issue is that Ayn Rand who is often used as whip to beat on Libertarians and not that Libertarians don&#039;t fan those flames too, Rand actually understood Libertarians especially libertarians (the use of upper and lower case intentional) and the issue of the philosophy and as a result she detested it and noted this in her writings.&nbsp; The irony!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 2702186, member: 2189"] You can thank [USER=56035]@rickyb[/USER] and his comment, otherwise I had no intention of responding at all to this thread. People tend to define libertarianism or in the case of this thread Libertarianism to their own definitions, not that this is what people typically do anyway, so the point of any real discussion on the issue seemed impossible to result in any consensus from the start. And to be honest, some of the fault lay with people who call themselves Libertarian in the first place. As to your OP and your own definition if you will, in a very general sense, that is a fair observation but like so many things in life, it is also far more nuanced too. The irony in this issue is that Ayn Rand who is often used as whip to beat on Libertarians and not that Libertarians don't fan those flames too, Rand actually understood Libertarians especially libertarians (the use of upper and lower case intentional) and the issue of the philosophy and as a result she detested it and noted this in her writings. The irony! [/QUOTE]

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