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	<title>Comments on: Race and Groups: The Libertarian Blind Spot</title>
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		<title>By: DJF</title>
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		<description>There are several different types of libertarian, and since libertarians expose individualism it might be argued that each one is his own type.  However here are a couple of types I have noticed

The “money is everything” type.  For them, if it involves increasing the amount of money it generates then it is good.  They generally think in terms of math and if it cannot be turned into a math equation they ignore it.  So family, friends, neighbors, race, nation don’t figure into their equation so it is ignored at best or openly discounted.  They ignore the fact that the “free market” and profit involves things which does necessarily involve money.  Most people would generally not sell their sons and daughters even if it did bring a big money profit because they would not profit in respect to their family.

A subset of “money is everything” is the “if it’s a corporation its good” type who as long as you put corporation in its name they think that its free market.  They could be noticed by their support of the Dubai Ports deal where a corporation 100% owned by the Dubai government was considered to be part of the free enterprise system and stopping the deal was anti-free market.

There is the “I am a total individual” type.  This generally hits people in their late teens and early adulthood when they are leaving the family nest and want to be seen as an individual.  They usually get a bad case of it if they read Ann Rand at this time and start thinking they are the next John Galt.  However you can see by Rand novels how unrealistic this viewpoint is with its cardboard good/bad characters and its sterile feel with little or nothing involving family and children, neighbors let alone nation or race in the story.

Then there is the “I want to do it, so nobody should stop me” type.  Many are more libertines then libertarians since they will probably be first in line for taxpayer supplied medical care when their debauchery catches up with them.  Or in the case of Wall Street, when their leveraged borrowing and risk taking catches up with them.  The ones who are more libertarians then libertines you generally don’t here about since they take responsibility for their actions and don’t bother other people.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are several different types of libertarian, and since libertarians expose individualism it might be argued that each one is his own type.  However here are a couple of types I have noticed</p>
<p>The “money is everything” type.  For them, if it involves increasing the amount of money it generates then it is good.  They generally think in terms of math and if it cannot be turned into a math equation they ignore it.  So family, friends, neighbors, race, nation don’t figure into their equation so it is ignored at best or openly discounted.  They ignore the fact that the “free market” and profit involves things which does necessarily involve money.  Most people would generally not sell their sons and daughters even if it did bring a big money profit because they would not profit in respect to their family.</p>
<p>A subset of “money is everything” is the “if it’s a corporation its good” type who as long as you put corporation in its name they think that its free market.  They could be noticed by their support of the Dubai Ports deal where a corporation 100% owned by the Dubai government was considered to be part of the free enterprise system and stopping the deal was anti-free market.</p>
<p>There is the “I am a total individual” type.  This generally hits people in their late teens and early adulthood when they are leaving the family nest and want to be seen as an individual.  They usually get a bad case of it if they read Ann Rand at this time and start thinking they are the next John Galt.  However you can see by Rand novels how unrealistic this viewpoint is with its cardboard good/bad characters and its sterile feel with little or nothing involving family and children, neighbors let alone nation or race in the story.</p>
<p>Then there is the “I want to do it, so nobody should stop me” type.  Many are more libertines then libertarians since they will probably be first in line for taxpayer supplied medical care when their debauchery catches up with them.  Or in the case of Wall Street, when their leveraged borrowing and risk taking catches up with them.  The ones who are more libertarians then libertines you generally don’t here about since they take responsibility for their actions and don’t bother other people.</p>
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