How do you reply to people who think that way?
You should commiserate. Senility is no joke.
Where there is no property there is no justice; a proposition as certain as any demonstration in Euclid
Fools! not to see that what they madly desire would be a calamity to them as no hands but their own could bring
"When I was young I was a socialist, but now I'm grown up so I'm a libertarian."
lol
I usually reply by saying, "Yeah, it's nice to have commonsense again."
"I'm not a fan of Murray Rothbard." -- David D. Friedman
Because there's no common sense in libertarianism.
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^Oh snap.
I was a conservative statist when I was youngest, then went from "left" libertarian to "right" libertarian. What does that say about age? I saw the government as more and more illegitimate as I got older.
Tell them age does not mean that all your ideas are true. Argue with arguments not meaningless personal attributes.
Freedom has always been the only route to progress.
http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#conversion
If age means anything in understanding truth, we should just consult the oldest people in every field. Then we'll have paradise!
A.G.B: How do you reply to people who think that way?
Essentially that they don't, and never did know anything about libertarianism.
To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process. Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!" Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."
I didnt know that a requirement to growing up was to choose between being a liberal or republican
My Blog: http://www.anarchico.net/
Production is 'anarchistic' - Ludwig von Mises
Libertarianism is the most demographically old idea.
I can see it.
When you get older the political people pander to you more. Your entitlement to goodies is almost axiomatic. All the politicians are about your age. They are into all the lame pop culture stuff that you are. Quoting old episodes and name dropping bands.
Just think that both liberals and conservatives support welfare for old people. Not so for young people.
When people are young, they need less from politics. But at the same time are getting it good and hard. As the memory of public school indoctrination and control fades away, so does your cognizence of who owns you. Hence, there goes your soul.
A.G.B.: How do you reply to people who think that way?
Just ask them why they changed.
If I wrote it more than a few weeks ago, I probably hate it by now.
It goes something like this:
"I'm a responsable person now and I realized that I have to take care of others".
Then just do it, by all means. Correction - by all means but forcing others to do this for you.