Let me add something Jerk… and this is inchoate, but something that might cause me to disaffiliate was if extra layers (even ones I agreed with) were added to the "pure" message. I like that the platform is "pure" and individual Libertarians can be right, left, or plumb-line. Left Libertarians have gotten really raucous, and while what they have had to add is valuable, I don't think it is libertarianism qua libertarianism. I think it is perfectly libertarian for a bunch of religious fundamentalists to voluntary start some community with rules that others consider repressive, but they agree to them. Some left Libertarians say that it is antithetical to libertarianism itself.. that allowing certain liberties is anti-liberty which makes as much sense to me as slavery is freedom and war is peace. If that group started putting stuff like that in the Platform, I would likely disaffiliate. I do not think freedom means anything unless there is freedom to allow people to be voluntarily doing things I don't like (and I don't like that my faith has become known as the denier of cakes rather than the ambassadors of peace). And the rest of us could boycott, shame, ostracize, not move there, etc, as we deem fit or not.
And if the word "micro aggression" ever appeared in the sense used by SJWs, I would be gone. And ask someone to shoot me. So triggered.
The same with right Libertarians btw, but they are not as vocal or influential right now (they are supporting Rand Paul-- when he doesn't get the nomination, we may have an influx). Some argue that Libertarianism require a socially conservative society discriminatory to homosexuals. I reject that. Though I would argue in LibPar they could do just that. And more libertine groups could have their own that frowned on what they would consider prudery. I would not live in either.
(if you haven't guessed, I sympathize with plumb-line Libertarians, though my pragmatic side probably ends up aligning more with left Libertarians, for peace and practice, not for philosophy)
And if the word "micro aggression" ever appeared in the sense used by SJWs, I would be gone. And ask someone to shoot me. So triggered.
The same with right Libertarians btw, but they are not as vocal or influential right now (they are supporting Rand Paul-- when he doesn't get the nomination, we may have an influx). Some argue that Libertarianism require a socially conservative society discriminatory to homosexuals. I reject that. Though I would argue in LibPar they could do just that. And more libertine groups could have their own that frowned on what they would consider prudery. I would not live in either.
(if you haven't guessed, I sympathize with plumb-line Libertarians, though my pragmatic side probably ends up aligning more with left Libertarians, for peace and practice, not for philosophy)
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