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   > The Comedy of Libertarian Hypocrisy By Dan Agin   
   >   
   > One of the great jokes of modern America is so-called *libertarianism*   
   > an ill-defined -ism with a multitude of meanings in a spectrum of   
   > attitudes about government intrusion.   
   >   
   > At one extreme, the libertarian is a total anarchist, a believer in no   
   > government at all, and a hundred years ago a terrorist and bomb-thrower   
   > convinced that the road to libertarian dystopia demanded destroying   
   > civilization.   
   >   
   > At the other extreme, the so-called *libertarian* is a proto-fascist   
   > conservative who uses libertarian buzzwords to achieve a political   
   > agenda that would actually involve more government intrusion and not   
   > less government intrusion intrusion to foster business and protect   
   > wealth at the expense of the unwealthy.   
   >   
   > The underlying joke across the entire spectrum of political libertarian   
   > attitudes is an underlying hypocrisy illustrated by the following:   
   >   
   > Consider a *libertarian* named Self Reliant. Mr. Reliant, fifty-five   
   > years old, suffers a sudden heart attack. He calls 911, and when the   
   > paramedics arrive he directs them to the best hospital in town, which   
   > happens to be the university hospital attached to a state university.   
   > Mr. Reliant is rushed to this hospital and receives treatment in the   
   > emergency room that essentially saves his life.   
   >   
   > Mr. Reliant's comical hypocrisy is that nearly every step along the way   
   > he's acting in contradiction to his loudly broadcast principles.   
   >   
   > 1) Dialing 911 and asking for paramedics is asking for help from local   
   > government.   
   >   
   > 2) Directing the ambulance to a local state university hospital   
   > emergency room is asking for help from the state in which he lives.   
   >   
   > 3) Once inside that hospital, accepting emergency treatment is accepting   
   > help from the federal government, since it's the federal government   
   that   
   > funds nearly all the research and development in cardiac infarction   
   > emergency care.   
   >   
   > At every step along the way, Mr. Reliant has asked for help from the   
   > very local, state, and federal institutions that he claims are   
   > intrusions in his self-reliant life and that he would like to see   
   > disappear.   
   >   
   > It's a comedy of hypocrisy. Were Mr. Reliant a true libertarian, he   
   > would treat his heart attack himself (and most likely die), or at the   
   > least, when the paramedics arrive, he would direct the ambulance into   
   > the woods to die among the trees. (Actually, the woods may be off-limits   
   > also, since they may be maintained by a local, state, or federal   
   > forestry service.)   
   >   
   > Like many comedies, this comedy has a tragic side if you flip the coin.   
   > The tragedy is that too many Americans are currently behaving like   
   > imbeciles in their adoration of absolute and total individual freedom   
   > when the reality of our time is that such freedom is incompatible with   
   > individual survival.   
   >   
   > The libertarian ambulance always rushes to a government funded emergency   
   > room.   
   >   
   > Our current *libertarians* don't die.   
   > They just shout that other people   
   > should die.   
      
   Worth repeating!!!!!!!!   
      
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