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Comment author: [deleted] 12 December 2014 08:22:45PM *  -1 points [-]

Yet here this is not the case.

But of course it is. Libertarians shoot people who violate private property titles. Wanting to enforce a different set of laws does not mean one is actually an anarchist, nor should any sensible consequentialist put himself in the situation of competing to signal greater anarchism-virtue.

Comment author: Dias 29 December 2014 01:52:35AM 1 point [-]

If the reversed sentence sounds coherent then the original sentence carried content, so it's not an applause light.