Here’s a quote from a self-expressed libertarian defense.
What makes me a small-’l’ libertarian isn’t that I believe it’s impossible—or easy—to reconfigure human brains using sufficiently advanced technology, or any other method. What makes me a libertarian is that the prospect of having that reconfiguration done by the same system that managed to ban marijuana while allowing tobacco, subsidize ethanol made from corn, and turn the patent system into a form of legalized bludgeoning, makes me want to run screaming into the night until I fall over from lack of oxygen.
A more thoughtful look at government currently would provide to be much more than a small-government seeker. Governments throughout the world can and do provide useful social programs that genuinely help people – like universal healthcare or education for youth. Looking at all the things government does – all governments throughout the world would help you get away from the cynical and absolute anti-big-government position.
You may want government to spend more money on one thing, and decrease or abolish another part. Government can do things compentently, and can actively improve. You may want to increase funding into education, but remove prohibition on a relatively harmless drug. Do that. Be case specific, a whole perspective that the government can’t do too much right is clearly ignoring the things government does well.
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I chose not to respond to the other parts of the article, as there was too much things I just found silly. Like using IQ as a base reason for distrusting government.
