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Comment author: Mercy 31 January 2012 05:37:21PM 13 points [-]

I often get the impression, from young american consequentialist libertarians, that they would be socialists in any other country. Certainly they don't resemble right-libertarians elsewhere, or older american libertarians. And conversely your socialist organisations are missing their usual complement of precocious hippy cynics

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 13 May 2012 03:08:45AM 9 points [-]

Can you unpack these intuitions? As a young American consequentialist vacillating between socialism and libertarianism, I'm very curious.