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Remember, problems are manmade concepts. Many things deemed "problems" can be and should be ignored.

Regarding tobacco, nobody forced consumers to smoke. One must try to make informed choices and/or educated guesses. It is just a fact of life.

If God had not been a libertarian we would still have to live with those pesky dinosaurs.

In the '90s I was peripherally involved with the Libertarian Party in Orange County, CA. They were a bunch of VERY intelligent and interesting people, to be sure.

As far as running the country, though, they seemed to forget that not all Americans are upper middle class management types. They could NEVER give a straight answer regarding how their system would account for avarice and greed in human behavior. They sanctimoniously spoke of "stewardship" preventing owners from (for ex) clearcutting forests for a fast buck today, or motivating them to pay what it costs to collect and dispose of wastes rather than just letting them flow into the river or up the smokestack.

Politically, I consider myself most like a Libertarian, but as a political party in the USA general population, I don't see them getting far out of the 1-2% of the vote niche any time soon.

Some Big-L libertarians I have met tend to be quite fat.

I am definitely more neoliberal than libertarian, even though I am also fat.

There's a lot of the "Whitey" types over at Mises, if you include Confederate Apologists.