hairyfigment comments on Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hairyfigment 28 April 2014 11:00:56PM 2 points [-]

So, is this trolling? You cite the Milgram experiment, in which the authorities did not pretend to represent the government. The prevalence and importance of non-governmental authority in real life is one of the main objections to libertarianism, especially the version you seem to promote here (right-wing libertarianism as moral principle).