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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 06 October 2012 12:36:45AM *  2 points [-]

Within libertarian circles, I've seen folks differentiate between "capital L" libertarians who think liberty is an end in itself and "lower case l" libertarians who are libertarian on utilitarian grounds.

The study says that libertarians are "libertarians were moderately more utilitarian than conservatives, and slightly more utilitarian than liberals." But they also value liberty as a terminal value more than liberals or conservatives. I don't see how this can be reconciled.

It can be reconciled if there are several other values aside from liberty that liberals and/or conservatives value and libertarians don't. (As the article suggests.)

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 06 October 2012 04:52:45AM 7 points [-]

I've only seen the distinction between Libertarians and libertarians as meaning that the former are affiliated with the Libertarian Party.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 06 October 2012 06:22:02AM 1 point [-]

OK, you're probably right.

Comment author: Bruno_Coelho 06 October 2012 01:51:12PM 0 points [-]

Defendind libertarianism in a conceptual ground don't make much sense if don't supported with free market policies. "As a end in itself" is a heuristic to average in situations where you don't have direct acess to data.