This bastardised libertarianism makes 'freedom' an instrument of oppression
It's the disguise used by those who wish to exploit without restraint, denying the need for the state to protect the 99% Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word excuses every assault on the lives of the poor, every form of inequality and intrusion to which the 1% subject us. How did libertarianism, once a ... Full Story »
Posted by Harry A Farr
An excellent review of the logic behind the simple fact that your freedoms end at the tip of my nose. Ayn Rand was a hedonist that believed in one thing: Ayn Rand. This insistence of Freedom Uber Alles ignores the fact that we are social creatures and it is our society that keeps us from destroying human kind.