The article advocates a wholly prudentialist position. Civil liberty A may
prevent effective management of social cost B. If our attitude to B
changes, we can limit A.

I'm not saying this is wrong in itself. But I am saying it's thoroughly
conservative. One of the ironic outcomes from pursuing progressive politics
to the hilt.
On Aug 30, 2014 2:29 PM, "Metatron YHVH" <metatrongone@???> wrote:

> That article almost seemed satirical. Either way it had valid points.
>
> A key point for me was environmental impact.
>
> Good enough for me.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Josh Walker <josh@???> wrote:
>
>> Lol. What's a libertarian, according to the Guardian and their study? I'm
>> not going to google it because both sides are equally foolish, but on a
>> more conservative-leaning site I saw, not more than a few months ago, an
>> article written about an article that showed that "libertarians" had a
>> *greater* grasp of science than "liberals" (US-type, both, obviously).
>>
>> So much like eggs, then. Science proves they're bad! Science proves
>> they're not bad! All that tells me is that somewhere, science stopped being
>> scientific.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 5:12 AM, Charlotte Bowyer <
>> charlotte@???> wrote:
>>
>>> The examples the article gives regard policy, not science...
>>> "Libertarians don't like the FDA'
>>> - THEY HATE SCIENCE
>>>
>>> And the idea that it's free markets incentivising giant healthcare
>>> corporations not to create new drugs... yup....
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Tim Patrick <judoman589@???>
>>> wrote:
>>>

>>>> Remember folks, the free market and science can't go hand in hand...
>>>> Except for Bitcoin, SpaceX, Tesla, 3d printers, etc...       Link:
>>>> http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/aug/29/libertarian-ideology-natural-enemy-science
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