IncendiaryGunner
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Ummm, you do know who Radley Balko is, right? Senior Editor at Reason? Chin-scratcher at Cato? Libertarian? Featured author and thinker at Libertarianism.org?
Radley Balko speaks for libertarianism. Heck, he is paid to speak for it.
A mouth piece of libertarianism is saying he is cool with taxing carbon and wants a boot on your neck.
[STRIKE]Libertarian philosophy[/STRIKE] Balko wants to sit on the throne just like everyone else and tell you what to do. Balko is further proof of this fact.
Or, perhaps as others have pointed out, Balko is not pure enough?
Philosophies speak for themselves. If someone calls themselves a libertarian, and then holds up a policy that contradicts libertarian philosophies, that does not make the policy libertarian.
It has nothing to do with an individual being a "pure libertarian" - because that simply does not exist. You show me a "pure libertarian", and we can bag JetGirl that unicorn.
Every belief can be classified somewhere between libertarian and authoritarian.
A policy rooted in authoritarian philosophy being suggested by someone who generally agrees with libertarian philosophies does not change libertarian philosophy - nor does it make it a libertarian policy.
Individual beliefs that do not align with a philosophy - do not alter said philosophy.
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