Charlie StrossRight-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.)
Harry Turtledove@cstross Have to agree. There are some libertarians who take freedom seriously, e.g., Poul Anderson. But the kind you mean are just Nazis in designer clothes.
The distance from "Freedom for everybody!" to "I've got mine, Jack!" is depressingly short.
Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)@hntdove @cstross The distinction I used to use was between libertarians like Anderson, who thought through the consequences of their ideology, and "glibertarians" who just wanted a society that let them do as they please while shielding them from the consequences.
I no longer make that distinction; the former are a vanishingly tiny minority these days.