1. This is starkly important to remember about libertarianism, it is not a monolithic entity of uniform thinkers, it is a group of people who exhort the glories of individualism. Kinsley's vapid series of hyper-reductionist examples of where libertarianism fails, followed by his puppy-like cuddling of the philosophy and it's adherents is insulting to me, personally; and is as well indicative of the typical style of political discourse in the country today.

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2. Government should only regulate where the free market fails. All these ideas that are opposed obviously by tax and spend liberals because of faults they may see happening are already happening today. Look at OSHA, supposed to keep workers safe, then why are mines collapsing? Is OSHA worth the cost when the best interest of workplace safety falls in the hands of insurance companies. The pay the claims therefore it is in their best interest to maintain safe workplaces.

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3. Some blogger wrote 'medicare is more efficient than the private insurance industry'. Remember when medicare was paying $3 for a bandage, yeah that is more efficient alright.

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4. This is a very good assessment. As a proud anarchist/libertarian, I thank you for publishing it.

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5. I have learned that the conversation is limited when the comments take the author to task regarding the facts used as premise for his discussion.

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6. Libertarians are always assailed for their logic, which can be quite sound, while those in power are left to justify the train wreck is the state.

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7. Kinsley's three paragraphed are premised on the Schiavo case as a "right to die" . The Schiavo case was tried as a "right to privacy". A "right to die" intimates a terminal illness over which a patient requests power over the imminent event. Terry Schiavo was never terminally ill. She was disabled and refused food and water as treatment. Neither yours nor Kinsley's libertarian discussion hold water because you found it on false premises.

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8. It was well written, though I don't think the roads are that unrealistic. Its the equivalent of what they are planning to do right now in California only the ones Arnold's proposing are not based on supply and demand (or market mechanisms).

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9. What libertarians are advocating is a privately-funded HIGHWAY system - not private ownership of Main Street in your town. Privatization works, because government isTHE least efficient vehicle for delivering essential transportation services. On top of being more efficient, privatization eliminates useless, pork-barrel projects. No contracting company is going to self-finance and build a "Bridge to Nowhere." Point being, not every road should be privatized, but privatization works - for highways.

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10. I support a carbon tax because global warming damages my property. I consider my self a libertarian but I dont think polution should be settled in civic cases. What libertarians support isnt just a right to life, we support the government not quetioning your motives. Just because the lack of seatbelt use is often unintentional, doesent mean armed police should pull us over for it. The person who doesent use a seatbelt and is found on the highway dead should be billed for our inconvenience. enforcing seatbelt use is like enforcing handwashing.

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