There's a huge difference between libertarians-on-principle, and those who think libertarian policy makes people's lives better on the current margin. Here's how to tell them apart: "Do you support making testing and treatment of COVID-19 free (i.e., taxpayer-paid) for everyone?"
TFW one's utilitarianism ends up diametrically opposed to one's libertarianism
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What is the best contemporary defence of utilitarianism? (I.e. that defends against the argument that it opens the door to crazed hubristic genocidal dictators that believe they are acting in a manner consistent with utilitarianism?)
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Sounds like craziness, hubris, and authoritarianism are the problem, not whatever moral theory the dictator claims to espouse.
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Maybe pragmatism is orthogonal to both.
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