• TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Personally, I’m less concerned about what they want to make legal than I am about what they want to be morally acceptable. Guns, legal to sell, morality is questionable (depends on the buyer and the purpose). Drugs, you’re right. Making them legal would help in some ways, yes. Morality? Again, it depends on a lot of things, but GENERALLY SPEAKING, they can/are often pushed on the most vulnerable members of society. Children’s teeth? Yeah, it’s legal in the U.S. Should it be? I would argue no. Honestly, I only put that in as a reference to Danger 5 (home of the “Agent Hitler, FBI” meme).

    More to my point overall, rather than nitpicking the details, Libertarians mostly view the world almost entirely in terms of market value and individual selfishness. They often don’t care about morals or empathy or the welfare of their fellow human beings unless they can turn a profit by at least pretending they do. They are exactly the type of people who think that “the poor” are ONLY poor due to bad personal choices, even though we have scientific evidence that says otherwise