re: #61 Jack Burton

Having a rigid “set of rules” is just as bad if not worse because it leads to fundamentalism, ideological purity, an inability to govern because you can’t work with others, and taking things too far, well beyond logical boundaries.

There are libertarians who have such a set of rules in their heads, and think of any compromise as a deal with the devil.

They also think everyone should pay individually for Cops and Fire protection too because they take the ‘small government’ idea to an illogical extreme and anything else is tyranny.

Yeah, and, even though classical liberal is an outdated term, the anti-labor positions that classical liberals started, the naive misunderstanding of the balance of power between employer and employee, is one of the biggest problems with the average rule-bound libertarian. It’s a determined failure to not look at the 20th century, but instead hearken back to the romanic yeoman farmer idea of revolutionary America. The best you can say about it is that it’s quaint, but it looks laughably out of place against the backdrop of 21st century capitalism.