Libertarians make bad lifeguards.

[Voice for Peace]

[Voice for Peace]

1. I have a very good libertarian friend. Quite pure of heart but simple minded. His philosophy

is that you just leave everybody else alone, mind your own business. I remember some years back they were trying to figure out who to run for office, but nobody felt like doing it, so they didn't have a candidate.

[fishbulb703]

6. exactly, the problem with libertarians is that they let dictators run wild

They just live in rural areas with land and some guns, and they don't really give a fuck unless something horrible happens.

[JoeyT]

8. Most of them wouldn't even care if something horrible happened.

As long as it didn't happen to them personally.

[Iterate]

2. Brilliant. The laissez-faire lifeguard.

[OnionPatch]

3. LOL!

Good one, Clay! :rofl:

[Ian David]

4. Once, I briefly considered becoming a Libertarian.

What changed my mind most were two things:

1) Libertarians aren't universally in favor of Marriage Equality. Seems to me that should be a plank of the Libertarian Party-- you know, personal responsibility, smaller government and all that.

2) Some of the Libertarians said that "people should exercise the personal responsibility to drink bottled water" if a company is polluting the water supply.

Thom Hartmann is right-- Libertarians are just right-wing Republicans who want to smoke dope and get laid.

[Radical Activist]

5. Yep. They're the purest expression of me-first conservatism.

[The Northerner]

7. I have a libertarian cousin and his response

when I asked him about the issue he said that if a libertarian was hired as a lifeguard he/she would be required, by contract, to serve his/her employer in whatever field the libertarian was hired.

He also said that if a libertarian was hired as a security guard, the libertarian would be bound by the contract he/she signed when he/she was employed so if the libertarian was required to guard a store against theft and murder (in a contract) he/she would be obligated to abide by those terms.

It seems that he has a different approach to things based on whatever is required in contracts signed by libertarians & claimed that if the libertarian broke a contract he/she should be allowed to be sued.