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The original link isn't titled "Why Libertarianism Doesn't Work", it's called "How I Outgrew Libertarianism". He's just writing a personal anecdote about why he
by dylandrop 13y ago
The original link isn't titled "Why Libertarianism Doesn't Work", it's called "How I Outgrew Libertarianism". He's just writing a personal anecdote about why he no longer agrees with a political philosophy. Does everything on HN have to be laid out as an academic paper?
- hexd 13y agoNo, but I think should have something to do with "hacker", at least.
- unimpressive 13y ago>Does everything on HN have to be laid out as an academic paper? No, but a personal anecdote about libertarianism as a political ideology is the sort of thing that breeds argument, but no debate. EDIT: So I went ahead and looked up "debate" in a dictionary and it apparently doesn't mean "principled argument", I'm not sure what the word for that is, but basically a post like this generates a lot of noise but produces little to no signal.
- dylandrop 13y agoI see it more as an interesting read than anything else, and enlightened me to one person's issues with libertarianism. Sort of like reading a novel with political viewpoints: you can agree with it or disagree with it. It doesn't have to "produce signal".