A year or so ago, the guy my daughter was seeing told me he was a libertarian. I tried to make sure he knew what the word meant, but it doesn't seem to have gotten through.
He also claimed to be "Punk". Desperate to distinguish himself from the crowd, as so many young people seem to be.
He has a distinguishing characteristic now. He got a tooth knocked out in a fight with my daughter's new boyfriend a few days ago, after stalking him and confronting him at home, just minutes after getting caught at our house and fleeing into the night.
Now the ex is threatening to shoot the new boyfriend.
The new boyfriend (who has plenty of issues of his own) went to "the authorities" about the threat, and now he's in legal trouble for the fight, and the ex seems to be facing no consequences whatsoever. Typical.
The police chief supposedly said, "It's not my problem" when told about the threat.
Anyway...
I knew the ex didn't get what "libertarian" means, and that he didn't listen to a thing I said. Not that I'm surprised.
Libertarian doesn’t mean "I’ll do whatever I want", because it’s grounded in liberty- freedom tempered with responsibility. Claiming you're libertarian because you like the freedom to do whatever, but ignoring your responsibility to not archate, doesn't cut it.
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