>Re "I don't happen to share the philosophy, but it is
>a respectable one."
>
>This strikes me as an excessively generous estimation of libertarianism
>-- unless "respectable" simply means internally logical. I find the
>whole libertarian outlook solipsistic and creepy. That way lies Ayn
>Rand and Margaret Thatcher. Chilling!
I wish I could remember who said this, because s/he deserves credit, but on a little pop culture mailing list I'm on that occasionally breaks into flamewars with the two resident libertarians, someone boiled down the lib economic philosophy to, "I got mine, so fuck you!"
Doug