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26 Post author: Solvent 24 February 2014 04:13AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 24 February 2014 07:18:58PM 2 points [-]

Remember the context -- we're talking about persuasion in the social setting, about meme and value propagation, basically. In this context "pacifism" means "tolerance" in the sense of "you don't believe the same things as I do and that's fine".

Comment author: buybuydandavis 24 February 2014 08:12:23PM 2 points [-]

And my point was that not only in that context, but in other contexts as well, rationalist libertarians are pacifists until the bullets flying at them are actual bullets.

Comment author: Lumifer 24 February 2014 09:18:00PM 3 points [-]

not only in that context, but in other contexts as well, rationalist libertarians are pacifists until the bullets flying at them are actual bullets.

I don't believe this to be true. At least according to my understanding of rationalist libertarians.