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for me, libertarianism is a cancer. that doesnt make me a communist, and I am definitely not. but hyper-individualism is a literal poison to society.


Can't you disagree with a philosophy without calling it a cancer? It's this warping of language, 1984-style as in the original comment, that is the biggest problem.


It might not make you a communist, but I'd say definitely a statist at least, of which there are both left and right leaning flavors.

If libertarianism and individualism are "a cancer" and "literal poison" then then they are the most benign and beneficial ones I've ever heard of. Of course any ideology has a spectrum of interpretations and people involved, but the core ideas of "don't hurt people and don't take their stuff" (and maybe also "leave me alone") seem pretty good to me.




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