>>2076487Good, libertarians are delusional ideologues. A wise man once had a metaphor for why democracy is bad. The population is like a large to a strong but shortsighted shipowner whose knowledge of seafaring is lacking. Quarreling sailors are trying to convince them of their orders. The quarreling sailors are demagogues and politicians, and the ship's navigator, a stargazer, is the philosopher. The sailors flatter themselves with claims to knowledge of sailing, though they know nothing of navigation, and are constantly vying with one another for the approval of the shipowner so to captain the ship, going so far as to stupefy the shipowner with drugs and wine. Meanwhile, they dismiss the navigator as a useless stargazer, though he is the only one with adequate knowledge to direct the ship's course.
Furthermore, the population itself is driven entirely by their desires and are either too ignorant or too egoistic to make sacrifices for the greater good.
