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Do you have a source on that? My experience with libertarians is "I do what I want, and if I cause problems for you, fuck you" not "I'm personally responsible for my actions and the effects they have on my surroundings".
Also, you blindly missing the point, and then dodging it instead of admitting you missed the crux of the issue was just chef's kiss perfect.
Source: lots of people are different and you should not generalize some libertarians to every libertarian.
Libertarians believe in NOT causing problems for others. It's the basis of lobertanism, the non-aggression principle
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle
So no source?
I just linked you
To a wikipedia page about the non-aggression principle...
Not a source that documents personal responsibility as a core value of libertarianism.
So no source?
It's got sources in the article.
Should be easy enough to copy/paste that link then.
It sure is
https://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virtue_of_Selfishness
https://cdn.mises.org/Theory%20of%20Socialism%20and%20Capitalism,%20A_4.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzHEhMQaKbg&t=1209s
https://archive.org/details/TheMachineryOfFreedom/page/n65/mode/2up
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged
https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/222/0057_Bk.pdf
http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-morality-of-libertarianism/
Mostly irrelevant links. At least your last one mentions that...
Which is cool I guess, but it failed to show any examples of Libertarian individuals, or libertarian communities actually upholding that trait. I'm sure almost every ideology claims personal responsibility as a core value in some of it's foundational literature.
Typically, when I hear Libertarians talk about "Personal Responsibility" they tend to take it more "personal" and less "responsible".
I'd call it a weak source at best, but thank you for making the good effort to provide it. I really do appreciate it.