Re:The Face Behind Bitcoin?
by dragonwriter on Thursday March 06, 2014 @01:06PM
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> True, but it does compel you to work in a non-governmental job as much as possible.
Not really. Libertarians want government limited to certain essential functions (exactly which those are varies a bit between individual libertarians.)
There's nothing inconsistent about being Libertarian and working for the government in one of those essential functions.
>Nothing about libertarianism compels you to move to a less government-y place just so you can work a more ideologically pure job.
True, but it does compel you to work in a non-governmental job as much as possible. Or at least be honest about the situation:
"I hate working for the government and all the waste, but I applied to 100 jobs and this is that only one I could get. I'm looking to get out as soon as possible into the private sector."
I'm not fighting for ideological purity, but for ideological honesty. To me at least, it's okay to be a hypocrite or inconsistent, just so long as you are aware of the situation and can acknowledge it. Sometimes shit just happens and you end up in places, doing things you'd rather not be.
The specific thing I'm curious about are the all-too-common cases of people who do not possess the meta-cognitive awareness that they are engaged in hypocritical behavior.