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      It happens to people when they see selfishness as a core virtue.

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      I did not know economics at the time. I also grew up in a conservative household but never understood the opposition to gay rights and legalized drugs.

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      If you combine Econ 101 with American ideals of negative freedoms, libertatianism is what you get, and to be fair it sounds great on the surface. If you then turn a blind eye to all systemic issues that ruin that ideal of freedom/fairness you can even keep believing it!