For what it’s worth, I think most people I know expect most professed values to be violated most of the time, and so they think that libertarians advocating for this is perfectly ordinary; the surprising thing would be if professed libertarians weren’t constantly showing up advocating for regulating things. Show don’t tell in politics and ideology. That’s not to say professing values is useless, just that there’s not an inconsistency to be explained here, and if I link people in my circles this post, they’d respond with an eyeroll at the possibility that if only they were more libertarian they’d be honest—because the name is most associated with people using the name to lie.
For what it’s worth, I think most people I know expect most professed values to be violated most of the time, and so they think that libertarians advocating for this is perfectly ordinary; the surprising thing would be if professed libertarians weren’t constantly showing up advocating for regulating things. Show don’t tell in politics and ideology. That’s not to say professing values is useless, just that there’s not an inconsistency to be explained here, and if I link people in my circles this post, they’d respond with an eyeroll at the possibility that if only they were more libertarian they’d be honest—because the name is most associated with people using the name to lie.