Asperger syndrome and Libertarianism idea

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but businesses should be allowed to have unrestricted free competition. i agree the poor need to be helped, but not by the government. the people need to do that on their own.

This libertarian Aspie thinks Socialists are selfish jerks who haven't emotionally matured past the "It's not fair I want that toy too" stage, which is why the idolise Karl Marx's crap.

how do libertarians want to assault freedom?

Very well said. People are self-serving and greedy by nature. The way to get people to work hard and productively is to understand this. In free-market capitalism, people will put the work and voluntarily take on the more demanding job because they come with a reward of higher pay. You consequently get a far better quality of service in a capitalist society, because if your business doesn't serve its customers, someone else will come along and take your customers, and all the profits that come with them. To illustrate, look at the cars that are produced in communist countries i.e. Lada, Yugo, FSO. All cheap, poorly built and unreliable. That's what you get when a government just assigns people to jobs in a car factory (it may not work quite like this but you get the point.

i don't believe in government safety nets for cooperations, so you can pretty much be thankful we libertarians don't want that. capitalism, while not perfect, solves more problems than any other system.

Really, in what way does capitalism solve more problems than any other system?....even at its basis it puts profit before human dignity/rights. I mean for instance if you privatize all the public services that doesn't really solve problems that just turns everything into a product people have to buy and cannot have if they cannot afford. In earlier america more pure capitalism was attempted, but regulations had to be created to try and prevent things like employee abuse and very dangerous working conditions, companies monopolizing too much.

In order to keep capitalism from being a barbaric system it needs regulations, but even regulated its not exactly 'solving' a lot of problems.

I think that the main misconception that a sizable number of people have us that libertarianism and socialism are mutually exclusive. There is actually a range of thought that is libertarian socialist. Socialism does not have to necessarily involve a state. A co-operative enterprise is also an example of socialism in action.

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That is, libertarian thought verges on advocating a form of society very much along the lines of the "one-sided" and "self-centered" social nature of Aspies. Yes, as anyone familiar with the condition would observe here, those with Asperger's aren't individualistic in a technically autistic sense, i.e. they're not asocially withdrawn. But they do have a style of social interaction that's very much on the autistic spectrum, and that tends to define them as "individualistic in outlook" and given to a "lack of interest in socialization". It's this kind of autistic individuality that libertarianism can easily be seen as ideologically enshrining, in the form of its tenet of "self-ownership", and its glorification of every-man-for-himself free-marketarian economics and its cornerstone principle of self-interest.

Self-ownership, self-interest, self-this and self-that indeed. Note the frequency of occurrence of the word self in the conversation and philosophy of libertarians. They do rather appear to think in terms centered on atomized selves. I really don't think that it would be an unfair exaggeration at all to say that they in fact seem to have taken a centered-on-radically-individualistic-selves, a thoroughly self-centered orientation, and parlayed it into a political orthodoxy that rationalizes and validates it for them.

And, moreover, contrary to their professed belief in freedom, libertarians yearn to impose this self-centered orientation & orthodoxy on the rest of us, by promoting capitalism in its most antisocially individualistic, Darwinianly competitive form. Quite like political Aspies, libertarians first superimpose their own social way of being in the world on their thinking about society, and the next move of course is to go from superimposing to imposing. The sociopolitical thinking that feels so right to the liberpergerarian, to coin an awkward term, feels like it would be right and best for society as a whole. Naturally enough then, the liberpergerarian becomes a proponent, often a utopian and zealous one, of ideologically purifying our current mixed form of capitalism and visiting a more inhumanely selfist system upon his neighbor.

Asperger is the libertarianism

Now then, the possible painful human consequences of creating a socioeconomic order based to such an extreme extent on individualism perhaps doesn't adequately register with libertarians because of another hallmark Asperger's trait. I'm referring to the Aspie's distinctive deficit in the empathy department. An empathy deficit, does this sound at all like something that's characteristic of libertarianism and its adherents? That was a rhetorical question, by the way.

Libertarian philosophy of course often places no emphasis or value on the qualities of empathy and social compassion at all. In its most extreme version it even explicitly denounces such touchy-feely ethical qualities. Predictably, it thoroughly intellectualizes this with some of its key social concepts and its free-marketarian economics. But this is all really quite a lot of ideological self-justification of unfeeling self-centeredness. Libertarians can try as they may, but the leave-everyone-to-his-own-devices-and-to-the-winners-go-all-and-the-losers-can-die-and-decrease-the-surplus-population ethos of the their not so dear movement certainly bespeaks a lack of empathy. A veritably clinical lack of empathy, one that is yet another nail in the diagnosis of libertarianism as politicized Asperger's.

Next on the list of shared symptoms, the linear logicality & rigid rationalism of both Aspies and libertarians. Ever noticed how libertarians tend to be intellectually rather like latter-day scholastic philosophers, intensely, logic-choppingly, and doctrinairely rationalizing their politico-economic articles of faith the way medieval thinkers used to take their theological rationalizations to the extreme of deductively proving how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? And have you ever noticed how downright obsessive libertarians can be about the concepts of their creed, and about defending their intellectual validity? A penchant to be tenaciously logical and intellectually obsessive, doesn't this sound at least a tad Asperger's-like?!

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Capitalisms ultimate absurdity and one that conflicts with my logic, whether it be libertarian or bourgoisie liberal, is the notion that one can commodify a finite plane, infinitely. Hence I am a scientific socialist.