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The Heroine Diaries

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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Do Libertarians Think It's Fine to Tell People Not to Do Heroin?

The role of moral suasion is infinite. It's the only thing that matters, especially on issues where there is disagreement in the polity about what the right thing to do is. But i would say, my libertarianism contains like, a tremendous amount of am humility about my understanding of the social good. And so the further i get from my kind of circle of intimacy, I can basily just tell them what to do, as long as they will listen to me. The answer is clearly yes. We desperately want to universalize all of our imperatives. There are probably very, very, very few truly universalizable rules. Even the ones we think we know, we might be

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