No, these are people who have the same basic line of thought as other Libertarians/Minarchist (and claim to be so), but added that the gov should not run the Police, Military, or roads (keep in mind, these people are on this site).
That describes not Libertarians/Minarchists/Classical Liberals, that describes AnCaps (a sub-species of Anarchists). Again, an
essential precondition for accurately calling oneself a Libertarian/Minarchist/Classical Liberal is that one recognizes the need for government tasked with dealing with human predators on behalf of the citizenry - the justice system (cops and courts) deals with domestic predators and the military handles foreign predators. Roads are a different matter. For some reason which escapes me, some people professing to be Libertarian think government should be in charge of building and maintaining roads
in addition to defending the citizenry from predators, but that doesn't alter the fact that these same people
also recognize the need for cops, courts, and military. Cops, courts and military are the irreducible minimum. If someone says government should not be in charge of cops
or courts
or military, then that person is
not a Libertarian/Minarchist/Classical Liberal, no matter how loudly he protests that he is.
One said the police/courts...
If that one says government should not be in charge of the cops, that one is not a Libertarian/Minarchist/Classical Liberal. He is - at most - an AnCap.
...ANOTHER said the roads...
Well, this guy
might be a Libertarian (in the sense of a member of the American Libertarian Party, for example). He's certainly not a Minarchist or a Classical Liberal (in the sense of the various Enlightenment political philosophers such as the American Founding Fathers), but it is true that some members of the American Libertarian Party hold the position that government should handle the building and maintenance of roads.
...and a third said the Military.
Again,
by definition, this third person
cannot be a Libertarian/Minarchist/Classical Liberal, even if he insists upon calling himself one.
We're talking about three different people, not one.
At least two of whom are quite clearly
not Libertarian/Minarchist/Classical Liberal.
No, these are people who have the same basic line of thought...
But that's just it, they
don't have the same "basic" line of thought. Can you not grasp the fundamental difference between a philosophy which states that government (albeit strictly limited government) is an
essential component of a society and a philosophy which states that government is
forbidden to society?
Your post indicates a misunderstanding of the meaning of the word "basic".
Phred