Right-libertarians are all sociopaths. No exceptions.

(It's taken me decades to settle on this opinion—I dislike generalizing about groups of people—but there's nothing tentative about it any more.)

@cstross I would probably separate naïve, relatively well-off young libertarians who haven't been around enough yet to appreciate the realities of how other people live from older, committed libertarians who have no such excuse.

I was in the former camp for many years in my youth, even being high-up in national libertarian campaign groups, but after a few years of immersing myself in national politics on Twitter I realised how simplistic and divorced from reality the dogma was.

@hughster @cstross

My husband said when he got older in his thirties, "I was a libertarian as a teenager, and then I grew up and realized there were other people besides me in the world."