re: "The G.O.P. War on Civil Virtue" (The New York Times, May 26, 2022)
Perhaps the problem is that the GOP and some others think that society ends at the family, or even the individual. It would logically follow that since there exists no society that enables individuals, and perhaps families, to flourish, there can be no duty to any such notion as society, civic or otherwise. Although perhaps a concession can be made for a military society that lauds the warrior ethic of a quick resort to violence to keep the natives and other pests in society (which doesn't exist anyway) in their place and at bay.
Acknowledging that families, and even rugged libertarian individuals, actually need communities to exist as more than hunter gatherers would entail a concern for things like social justice, distributive justice of wealth, and other wicked notions antithetical to perfectly independent individuals, perhaps dragging along a family dependent or several, as they hunt and gather remorselessly to eke out their narrow life.
Somehow, I'm not sure that even the most vocal libertarians really do follow that path of the noble hunter gatherer fending for himself and his, and the world be damned.
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