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23 Feb 2016 Conversations with Tyler Nate Silver on the Supreme Court and the Underrated Stat for Finding Good Food (Live at Mason)
“I’m enough of a lowercase L libertarian where I think that the government ought to have a stronger reason to intervene in choices that people are making instead of a lesser reason, necessarily.”
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- 23 Feb 2016
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…Length isn’t everything, OK. The idea of legalizing drugs. Overrated or underrated? By this crowd, probably rated properly. I mean, I don’t know. I’m enough of a lowercase L libertarian where I think that the government ought to have a stronger reason to intervene in choices that people are making instead of a lesser reason, necessarily. To me, it clearly makes no sense to treat marijuana as being a more serious substance than alcohol, for example. I don’t think, in my heart of hearts, if I were running for office or in the Senate or something, that I would vote for a bill to legalize heroin or cocaine, but decriminalizing it, perhaps. But I don’t know. I think the consequentialist case, for a long time, probably underrated and may have gone a little bit too far in the other direction. But again, I would say if it’s close, then you give people the choice. The musical group My Bloody Valentine, they put out an album in 2013 after almost a 20-year hiatus. Few people expected this album. It was called MBV. Overrated or underrated?…
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