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You are talking about Libertarians. The GP is talking about libertarians. This distinction might be baffling to you if you haven't heard of it, but you can actu
by burntsushi 9y ago
You are talking about Libertarians. The GP is talking about libertarians. This distinction might be baffling to you if you haven't heard of it, but you can actually google it and read up on the difference between big-el and small-el libertarians. It gets worse than that though. There are other types of libertarians that distinguish between left and right libertarianism. It goes deeper but I'll stop here.
- CalChris 9y agoI quoted the Libertarian Party platform for clarity. In fact, I'm talking about any sort of libertarian. If you have a counter example from your particular species of libertarian with an accepted set of principles, awesome, cite it. Otherwise yours is a variation on No True Scotsman.
- burntsushi 9y agoA No True Scotsman would require an attempt on my behalf to refute something you're saying. "In fact," I did no such thing. It was just clear to me that y'all were talking about two different species of libertarianism without explicitly acknowledging it. This leads to long drawn conversations full of misunderstandings. I made an attempt to add some explicitness.
- betenoire 9y agoInstead of going deeper on the philosophy of /libertarians/i in general, why not answer his question about removing net neutrality from a perspective of whatever form of libertarianism justifies it?
- burntsushi 9y agoI'm not interested in participating in this debate in this place. I'm clarifying what I perceive is a communication problem.