# The 24 Types Of Libertarian **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 18, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-24-types-of-libertarian/596686 "2011-09-18T02:11:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-24-types-of-libertarian/596686/21 "2011-09-19T00:50:58Z")
> [@me](#): > > Anybody wanna comment on 22 of the 24 being White males? Evidently not. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-24-types-of-libertarian/596686/22 "2011-09-19T00:53:25Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > No, just bizarre, considering that the majority of those are rightist viewpoints. Ghats not to mention that the cartoon is labeled “24 types of authoritarians,” not liberals. I noticed the right-wing ideas right away. And that he had lost all credibility by lying about the link. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-24-types-of-libertarian/596686/23 "2011-09-19T03:13:42Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > Tough call - The Island or the Apostle? > > IMHO, many of the libertarians on this board lean toward The Island Probably because lefties go to public schools and drive on public roads and draw Social Security too, so in that sense righties weren’t given anything that lefties weren’t given as well. ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-24-types-of-libertarian/596686/24 "2011-09-19T03:49:04Z")
> [@Rysdad](#): > > I’m not terrified. I just like having lots of ammo. Best answer yet! May I borrow that **Rysdad**? Because it would look pretty cool on a t-shirt… ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-24-types-of-libertarian/596686/25 "2011-09-19T04:40:52Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Probably because lefties go to public schools and drive on public roads and draw Social Security too, so in that sense righties weren’t given anything that lefties weren’t given as well. :rolleyes: No, that’s the joke. That “The Island” takes and takes from society while pretending he doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-24-types-of-libertarian/596686/26 "2011-09-19T04:59:23Z")
No, the implication is that “The Island” believes that what’s his is his because he earned it himself without help from anyone else. The fact that he has had access to schooling and roads and so forth is meaningless because everyone has that same access. Thus he feels that he made his money on his own and therefore objects to the idea of government taking it and giving it to people who have made less of their access to schooling and other benefits than he has. He probably doesn’t object to taxes to pay for infrastructure and the military and so forth, but objects strenuously to income redistribution based upon the fiction that he has gotten more of a step up from society than other people have. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-24-types-of-libertarian/596686/27 "2011-09-19T05:04:20Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > No, the implication is that “The Island” believes that what’s his is his because he earned it himself without help from anyone else. I think we can all derive our own inferences from what we read, **Starv**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-24-types-of-libertarian/596686.md?page=1)