Vladimir_M comments on Thoughts on moral intuitions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_M 01 July 2012 09:54:03PM *  7 points [-]

[L]egitimate governments generally consider murder a fairly serious crime, and refuse to enforce contracts which would require illegal activity of the signatories. I'm comfortable with having the libertarian principle superceded by criminal law.

Read literally, this means that you're OK with any violation of the libertarian principle, as long as this violation happens to be formally codified as part of the criminal law. Is that really your position?

Comment author: Strange7 02 July 2012 01:01:40AM 2 points [-]

In short, yes. I also think that the range of activities covered by criminal law should be greatly reduced, e.g. possession of potentially dangerous pharmaceuticals should not be something people are imprisoned for.