As I said, some libertarians are explicit ethical egoists and few big-government progressives are. But that does not mean that libertarians would be less humanistic. It does not even mean that big-government progressives would not be really egoists: they just motivate their egoism by appealing to humanism. Egoism has several meanings and ethical egoism is not necessarily similar to common usage. Ethical egoism is humanism because the egos are humans. Big-government progressives claim that suppression of individual liberty is humanism but I disagree.
Big-government progressives cherish a myth that free markets lead to a lot of predation. They do not even understand that free markets are not unregulated in the sense of lack of any regulation. Conflation of free markets and the law of the jungle is a common theme in big-government rhetoric. Free markets necessarily include regulation that protects human rights to freedom. Big-government progressives refuse to believe that such freedom would be enough and want to impose a lot of regulation that is poorly motivated. Big government means predation by government and its cronies.
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