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My advise to you is not to support people who are comfortable using force to achieve their own ends.
It's really just that simple. You are helping to create a monster that has no checks, and balances, and is therefore immune from legitimate scrutiny, or oversight.
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Libertarians would fight to the death to protect the right of corporations who adopt health standards so lax people die from food poisoning to be free from government interference (standard setting), but are prepared to murder anyone who would suggest the state implement a policy that would empower individuals by relieving them of the crippling burden of health care expenses so vast they can make no progress through life or care for illnesses to expensive to heal under the curent system?
How is that consistent with individualism? The market is as much an artifical, soulless organism as the state, more than capable of oppressing "that lone individual struggling against the odds." However, the state has an investment in the longterm well-being of the community, whereas the market is a collection of splintered factions with no vision beyond their own profit and survival.