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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (378134)	4/14/2008 12:59:13 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576163

"It is a very intellectually-sound political philosophy, but one whose viability depends a lot on how trustworthy the individual is in society." I agree. They are very intellectually sounding. But, so is Marxism if you read Engels. The fatal flaw at the heart of most libertarian ideas is that it confers an enormous advantage to those who game the system. Which, by the way, is one reason why Marxism is fatally flawed. Most people are trustworthy and aren't looking to cheat the system, whatever that system might be. However, you have those who aren't so high minded. And simplified systems like libertarians espouse just don't have the robustness to cope. I have strong libertarian sympathies. I have tried to like it over the decades. But, I just can't get past the hurdles. But, sociopaths do exist. To make it worse, as with anything psychological, there is a continuum of individuals between the pure altruist and the sociopath. So you can't just pick the few really bad apples and deal with them. Because there will always be some individual who, in a moment of weakness, does something stupid. And that causes great harm to most of the libertarian systems I know of.