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Re:Twenty Questions with Steven Pinker by gadders on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @10:05AM (#16420826)
Well, you could order those groups by death toll? I'm not aware of Ayn Rand-style Libertarianism killing people.
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Re:Twenty Questions with Steven Pinker by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @10:09AM (#16420860)
Opposition to building codes? vaccination? pretty much any organized effort to make society safer (or avoid societal catastrophe)?

Libertarianism is pretty much "the tragedy of the commons" as a political ideal.

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Re:Twenty Questions with Steven Pinker by AndrewDucker on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @10:56AM (#16421242)
The US healthcare system definitely leads to more death than other developed nations, and the arguments against fixing it are generally Randian in nature.
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