Not a good take.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/occupy-bitcoin-bitcoin-is-not-just-libertarian
As a political philosophy, libertarianism says nothing about respecting others' views and lifestyles -- let alone celebrate and cherish stupidities and absurdities. It certainly doesn't prescribe us to live and let live.
It says we MAY NOT USE VIOLENCE (= esp STATE coercion) to enforce beliefs we may have onto others.
It doesn't say I have to be nice. It doesn't implore me to be compassionate. It doesn't mean I have to respect and allow into my home dispicable and degenerate shit.
I can insult you all I want. I can refuse to engage with you because you're ugly, vegan, "autistic," or believe that Bitcoin is compatible with leftism. I can ridicule your pathetic ideas or lifestyle, in public or in private. I can tell
off for thoroughly misunderstanding what libertarian means or what its philosophy or ethics prescribes, or
who certainly should know better.
Libertarianism is a non-smart contract: it asks about physical violence, initiation of force, and state power. Nothing more.
The rest-- religion, etiquette, values, behavior -- it relegates to a social level.
Living in harmony with others doesn't mean to embrace any odd retarded thing they do or say. it means to NOT throw them in jail for it
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