Quote Originally Posted by eugmac View Post
what frightens me most about you libertarian types is that you only seem to see things in black and white.
As someone who has had a lot of experience both in libertarian and liberal circles, the main thing that struck me as different about libertarianism is that every one of its tenets is rooted in logic and scientific fact. Half of socialism is based on the false foundation that governments can do certain things better than individuals can do for themselves (examples? never mind that, socialists just accept this as fact without even questioning it) and the other half is based on the idea that you can get something for nothing, that there's somehow an infinite abundance of stuff in the world and therefore no one should want for anything.

As to that latter bit, I really wish every pro socialism person would learn about the broken window fallacy. If you know what it is, the next thing is to really think about the ramifications of it, all of the unseen (and massive) opportunity costs that are created by government policies that ignore this very simple concept.

If your problem is that we only see things in black and white, I guess our problem is that you muddle the ink of every clear cut economic issue with your tears for the unfortunate wretches of humanity. Meanwhile the statist policies you support are making the poor even poorer in spite of it.