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Re:How I Outgrew Libertarianism by unimpressive on Monday September 02, 2013 @07:50AM (#6314691)
>Does everything on HN have to be laid out as an academic paper?

No, but a personal anecdote about libertarianism as a political ideology is the sort of thing that breeds argument, but no debate.

EDIT: So I went ahead and looked up "debate" in a dictionary and it apparently doesn't mean "principled argument", I'm not sure what the word for that is, but basically a post like this generates a lot of noise but produces little to no signal.

Re:How I Outgrew Libertarianism by dylandrop on Monday September 02, 2013 @08:47AM (#6314881)
I see it more as an interesting read than anything else, and enlightened me to one person's issues with libertarianism. Sort of like reading a novel with political viewpoints: you can agree with it or disagree with it. It doesn't have to "produce signal".