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Libertarianism is a mess because it has started over-complicating the idea of “liberty.”

Basically, all rights are “negative,” meaning they exist as an absence from impairment, and there are only three fundamental negative rights:

  1. Life - the ability to sustain or terminate one’s own existence

  2. Liberty - the ability to mobilize in support of that life

  3. Property - the ability to hold one’s own belongings as means of fueling the liberty to sustain one’s life

These three cannot infringe upon another’s rights to the same.

Where things get muddled by “libertarians” is in their explanations and execution:

  1. They focus on hypotheticals - debating and discussing nonsense about whether a nine year old child should be allowed to sell herself into prostitution.

  2. They fail to acknowledge that while “all men are created equal” in the view of natural rights, there are some who cannot grasp the concept at a genetic level and must be removed, one way or another: the jew with his inherent desire to enslave or the nigger with his inherent desire to engage in violence.

  3. They backpedal on the penalties for violations of rights. Since an attack on property is an attack on liberty which is an attack on life, those who would infringe on any of the three are guilty of an attack on life, and therefore should be treated as such. For example, the purse snatcher or fraudulent grifter is on par with the murderer, and thus can and likely should be met with deadly force by his would be victim.

The flaw isn’t in the idea, but in the proponents of the idea.