re: #82 Killgore Trout

What’s up with libertarians and nuttiness? There’s nothing really wrong with libertarian philosophy, it has pluses and minuses just like conservatism and liberalism. They all get spooky when taken too far but there’s something unique a libertarians. There’s something that attracts nuts and conspiracies. Is there something about libertarian thought that leads to this or has libertarianism just become a dumping ground for quacks by chance?

Well, I think that libertarians are by definition non-conformists. As such I think the movement attracts fringe elements.