An underlying tension in libertarianism

On the one hand, [Charles] Murray says he wants to liberate citizens
from the welfare state so they can live life however they choose.
On the other hand, by liberating citizens from the welfare state,
he hopes to force them back into lives of traditional bourgeois
virtue.

Read more here.  Many Swedes, of course, consider themselves highly individualistic, precisely for this reason.

Thanks to www.politicaltheory.info for the pointer.

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