Michael Shermer discusses belief formation and its causes. This prompts to Eliezer Yudkowsky to explain his core reason for being a libertarian:
What makes me a small-’l’ libertarian isn’t that I believe it’s impossible—or easy—to reconfigure human brains using sufficiently advanced technology, or any other method. What makes me a libertarian is that the prospect of having that reconfiguration done by the same system that managed to ban marijuana while allowing tobacco, subsidize ethanol made from corn, and turn the patent system into a form of legalized bludgeoning, makes me want to run screaming into the night until I fall over from lack of oxygen.
Jason Kuznicki expands on Yudkowsky's point.
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