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Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by oneshtein on Saturday September 28, 2024 @01:27AM (#41678104)
It's looks like you have wrong assumptions about liberal philosophy. In liberal philosophy, price of human life is set to infinity, thus price of life of any individual (even worthless ones) is equal to price of life of any group (even top of the top).

However, unlike anarchy, any harm to human life is very costly (because value of human life is infinite!), for example: killing of someone, suicide, death because of incompetence or laziness, or self damage because of self medication, etc. are «sins» for libertarians.

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Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by Elinvynia on Saturday September 28, 2024 @03:36AM (#41678597)
Libertarian != Liberal
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Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by oneshtein on Saturday September 28, 2024 @04:13AM (#41678734)
Yep, libertarians are holding the middle ground between anarchy and liberal democracy, so we can use libertarians as contrary example here too.

There is no known «libertarian democracies» in the wild also, so we can assume that their philosophy is not ready for use in production. IMHO, some evolving democracies are most close to a «libertarian democracy» in some areas, because rules of play are lagging behind.

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Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by oneshtein on Saturday September 28, 2024 @04:56AM (#41678934)
Yep, my mistake. However, I disagree that HN is the libertarian site.
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