It's typical of anarchopurists to think theirs is the only principled and self-consistent liberty-oriented ideology, when there are half a dozen others that can be as rigorously defended via combinations of principles like
- radical federalism;
- geolibertarian resource communalism;
- left-libertarian critiques of alleged coercion inherent in original property acquisitions and unequal economic associations;
- libertarian paternalism based on game-theoretic analysis of bounded rationality;
- the denial of pacifism and anarchism and sovereigntarianism to yield liberventionism;
- the theory of public goods;
- the theory of negative externalities; and
- the public goods analysis of the free rider problem in providing justice for the weak.
Each combination itself can have multiple variants based on orthogonal questions like intellectual property, the rights of animals, the rights of the unborn, the rights of children, forms of allowable punishment/retaliation, thresholds for reckless endangerment, etc.
To instead say there is just One True Libertarianism is about as intellectually credible as chanting "no god but God". Nevertheless, anarchopurists say: there is no god but God, all others are heretics, and 99% agreement is the worst possible crime, because a 1% heretic is more likely to defile the vestal virgins than any outright infidel.
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