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Apparently Tyler Cowen and David Brooks aren’t the only ones worried that people are just too godless and immoral these days. Libertarian Rachel Lu, another believer this is the Hour of the Libetarians worries that too many libertarians are “libertines” who “are indifferent to community and traditional morals” in contrast to the “virtue libertarians” who are “zealous for family, faith, civic virtue and traditional values.” And that shrinking government isn’t going to do any good “unless people have a strong ability to govern their own affairs.” Which requires that the culture step in for government and impose “norms and expectations … What we need, in short, are traditional morals. These tried-and-true norms for good behavior were developed precisely for the purpose of ordering human life in the context of families and small communities.”
As I’ve mentioned in past posts, this is why I don’t foresee an alliance with libertarians in my future. Theoretically they want government out of our business affairs and personal affairs. In practice, many of them either skew to traditional socially conservative positions or embrace them to make common cause with conservatives. Lu is the former (I had to click through a couple of links to get there but get there I did), a devout Catholic with what I gather are orthodox positions on gays, birth control, premarital sex etc. And in the time-honored tradition, she seems to think the alternative to traditional morals is chaos and moral anarchy (it’s not. Supporting gay marriage, birth control and keeping the government out of our bedrooms is a perfectly moral position).
•Several good links here at Slacktivist, including a conservative pro-lifer whose anti-toplessness proposals would reportedly ban public breastfeeding. Which leads to things like this.
•More from Slacktivist, including right-winger inability to tell a frat handshake from a gang sign.
•Minorities are not only bullied in Ferguson, they’re a cash cow for fines and court fees.
•Bank of America pays a record $17 billion settlement for shady deals in mortgage securities.
•A restaurant backs off making wait-staff pay the processing fees when customers use credit cards.
•Comcast admits one customers didn’t run up a $343 bill (it was the previous tenant) but still demands she pay it. Another customer gets told he’s only getting a charge refunded because he taped the service rep promising it.