brainoil comments on Privileging the Question - Less Wrong

102 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 29 April 2013 06:30PM

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Comment author: brainoil 29 April 2013 11:37:10AM *  1 point [-]

Doesn't the role of government also affect, e.g., death rates?

Of course, but the reason that rights based libertarians oppose gun control is not utilitarianism. A rights based libertarian would oppose gun control even if the utilitarian argument for it was obviously true. Such a person would not consider this question a privileged question.

Comment author: Emile 29 April 2013 11:58:21AM 6 points [-]

You can quote by putting a ">" in front of the paragraph you're quoting, it'll make your comments more readable.