2/ The question "how can a libertarian call something 'wrong' ?" reveals a deep confusion of categories. There are two axises: morality and law. They are largely orthogonal. "Libertarian" is a statement about what I want to be legal / illegal.
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4/ Let me also add that I think that 99% of traditional morality is NOT "irrational babbling of a sky god". I think that the vast majority of Chesterton fences keep us away from bad things that (a) do harm, (b) have enticing sales models, (c) hide the harm at the back end. >>>
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5/ To a very clever 19 year old, prohibitions on premarital sex seem insane. To a child who grew up poor bc just one parent, to a childless woman who was sterilized by an STD, etc., etc. etc the effects are perceived...even if not correlated in their mind with the prohibition.
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6/ The 19 year old may be smarter than his or her parents, but he or she is NOT smarter than 10,000 years of massively parallel human history, with all of the experimentation, failure, and success that that entails.
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The difference between "you shouldn't do that" and "I won't let anyone do that".
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Or the code book of the ruling class, No one can do it but us.
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Plenty. But like he said, it’s on the back end.
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