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Comment author: passive_fist 16 July 2016 01:22:43AM 0 points [-]

I don't know what "an unusually high preference for liberty/freedom" means. Every single political philosophy claims that it is pro-freedom. Even totalitarian regimes claim to be pro-freedom. Without reference to specific policy positions, claiming to be 'pro-freedom' seems meaningless to me.

So that reduces your definition of libertarianism to 'far-off-the-center position on the individualism vs collectivism axis'.

For a stable society to exist, at some level everyone has to agree upon some central authority with final say over disputes and superlative enforcement ability. Do you agree with this or not?

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 16 July 2016 09:19:34AM *  0 points [-]

Libertarian freedom is usually cashed out in terms of a strong adherence to negative rights combined with a disdain for positive rights.

Comment author: passive_fist 17 July 2016 12:58:24AM 0 points [-]

Can you be more specific?