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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I am applying the Golden Rule, and you are applying the sort of utilitarian analysis associated with John Stuart Mill. I find this an odd conversation to be having with an avowed libertarian. Here in America, we have property rights that protect the rich from taxation, but there in Iraq it's OK to abuse prisoners if it might potentially benefit us. Hmm.
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I am not a pure libertarian and, in fact, am probably a lot closer to a pure utilitarian, it's just that you and I would put different values on the scale when balancing any particular question like, for example, taxation.
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