Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming

Re:Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming by carsongross on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @01:59PM (#12131091)

There is a fundamental problem, some would say contradiction, in libertarian reasoning: if you have an open libertarian society with open borders, non-libertarian inclined people who are none the less interested in the prosperity of libertarian societies can move in and eventually destroy that libertarian society.

An internally libertarian society with strong immigration control solves this problem and would be called "nationalist" by most traditional libertarians.

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Re:Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming by gonvaled on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @03:45PM (#12131887)

This applies to any ideology: if you have an X society, non X people can join and destroy X society.

With the caveat that most Xs are not open, thus no contradiction by closing society X. So only libertarianism suffers from this contradiction.

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