Comments: Myths about libertarianism

I do not like the remark about paranoid consipracist. Especially the fact that so called "9/11 truthers" are put into the same category as UFO believers.

This should be rewritten, because to raise serious questions about the events of, and surrounding, 9/11 is certainly not a paranoid conspiracy (whatever that means anyway).

I wouldn't want to even make a link between personal believes, be it UFOS, NEw World Order, the rebirth of Donald Duck or any other Idea, with libertarianism. It just has nothing to do with it. Like the sort of icecream you prefer doesn't show anything about your philosophical foundation as well.

Else, a great start

Cheers

<i>I wouldn't want to even make a link between personal believes, be it UFOS, NEw World Order, the rebirth of Donald Duck or any other Idea, with libertarianism. It just has nothing to do with it. Like the sort of icecream you prefer doesn't show anything about your philosophical foundation as well.</i>

Exactly.  What I am trying to do is sever that "link" in people's minds.

To both, I took it to mean "Joe the Plumber" would group 9/11 truthers, UFO conspiracy theorists, and libertarians in the same category. This article should seek to separate 9/11 truthers and UFO conspiracy theorists from libertarians, regardless of whether grouping 9/11 truthers and conspiracy theorists together is an apt grouping or not.

You made a pretty nice contribution, exile.  good job!

Thanks Ama gi, I have seen these same arguments used online before too and I think it would be useful to give people a firm understanding of how to respond to those accusations. However, I don't understand why you reverted my 9/11/UFO conspiracy edits I made a while ago? The myth says:

"Libertarians are paranoid lunatics whose political ideologies are motivated by a bizarre and unfounded fear of government."

I wanted to tweak that paragraph to explain that the fear/distrust of government is not unfounded (like some conspiracy theorists are), but rather is derived straight from political philosophy (ie. we distrust government BECAUSE we believe government cannot inherently be trusted no matter how good or bad they try to be). The change you made makes the sentence simply say "we distrust government and that's not crazy" which I don't think would help dispel any myths. I recommend reverting back, but wanted to ask you first in case there was another goal here.