• belochka@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I still fall for “that shit” if you mean libertarianism and not Ayn Rand (of that author I have the same opinion I had when first reading her book, it’s hongweibing levels of intelligence).

    Libertarianism is very strictly based on personal responsibility for one’s decisions. And someone playing with a “young nuclear physicist” set near others is being pretty much violent even when no accidents happen. Combining these two, it’s pretty direct violence.

    That’s not allowing even for a moment the thought that a person who turned on a machine that made an effect on the world loses one bit of responsibility for that effect because they used a machine.