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Jon Stewart's 19 Tough Questions for Libertarians!

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I gave up after he insisted that the "goal" of libertarians is morality. First off, the idea that relying on private solutions as opposed to government ones will result in any kind of enhancement to morality is highly dubious. He specifically refers to waste as being less moral, and I suspect that the government is wasteful in different ways than private industry, but I would need to see some serious studies before I would consider this viewpoint to hold any water. Specifically, private industry just shifts wastefulness onto consumers, which is why you have things like unrepairable electronics filling up landfills. That's consumer waste, not private industry waste. It's just that the private industry can usually make more money when consumers are wasteful or are forced to be wasteful. The net result isn't that the system is less wasteful or more moral, the net result is that the waste ends up happening in a different place.

I gave up after that.

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