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You Might Be Libertarian if you are analytical in your political beliefs
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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 3476659" data-attributes="member: 63706"><p>The problem with groups is that they are made up of individuals, each of whom has their own idea of what the group is, and each believing they are representative of the group. As a result, belonging to a group is nearly impossible, because each individual belongs to their own idea of what that group is. This makes it impossible to understand, or deal with, a person above the individual level.</p><p></p><p>For someone to say they are a Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, what does any of that even mean, really? Labels are mostly a manifestation of intellectual laziness that allows us to justify treating people unfairly because of the labels we assign to them. </p><p></p><p>I thought that the basic underlying philosophy of libertarianism was, that we, as individuals, should be as free as possible, to live our lives the way we see fit, and interact with others in a voluntary, mutually benificial manner as we see fit, with government playing a small, well-defined role in facilitating voluntary participation. But the Libertarian Party is really into playing along with identity politics, and so I've become disillusioned with them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 3476659, member: 63706"] The problem with groups is that they are made up of individuals, each of whom has their own idea of what the group is, and each believing they are representative of the group. As a result, belonging to a group is nearly impossible, because each individual belongs to their own idea of what that group is. This makes it impossible to understand, or deal with, a person above the individual level. For someone to say they are a Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, what does any of that even mean, really? Labels are mostly a manifestation of intellectual laziness that allows us to justify treating people unfairly because of the labels we assign to them. I thought that the basic underlying philosophy of libertarianism was, that we, as individuals, should be as free as possible, to live our lives the way we see fit, and interact with others in a voluntary, mutually benificial manner as we see fit, with government playing a small, well-defined role in facilitating voluntary participation. But the Libertarian Party is really into playing along with identity politics, and so I've become disillusioned with them. [/QUOTE]
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