Libertarianism is just a set of values. The primary one being that the default is freedom. The default is that no one gets to tell another person how to live.

How can freedom be fetishized? What might be an example?

One thing that I see happening is a devaluing of community. People glamorizing living alone in some bunker somewhere. That isn't healthy. Humans are social creatures, we need community.

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I agree, freedom is a necessary precondition to virtuous ends, but it it the end in and of itself.

People modifying their trucks to blast smoke into the air are fetishizing freedom, I would say