One group cares about limited gov b/c they care about human rights. Power corrupts, so more gov power -> more human rights violations. 3/
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Agreed that "liberty for me, power of the state to destroy the outgroup" is a good way to describe the problem. However, not caring abt 1/2
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other people isn't like traditional libertarianism at all. Enlightenment & classical liberal ideas of rights apply to all humans. 2/2
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Totally! But "altruism" in political spaces usually the leading edge of statist policy. fine to be suspicious when people claim that motive
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You could see what Brown is doing as an inducement for the pro-liberty movement to better realize empathy, a central moral virtue for Smith
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