There are all sorts of possible forms of human social organization, which result in various outcomes for the humans involved; how am I supposed to know which one is best for people?
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what happens when someone implements some form of libertarianism, and it turns out to be terrible?
It was pretty clearly a hypothetical. As in, he doesn’t see enough evidence to justify high confidence that libertarianism would not be terrible, which is perfectly in line with his statement that he doesn’t know which system is best.
It’s hypothetical about libertarianism. Other approaches have been tried, so the single data point does not generalise into anything like “no one ever has any evidential basis for choosing a political system or party”. To look at it from the other extreme, someone voting in a typical democracy is typically choosing between N parties (for a small N) each of which has been in power within living memory.
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It was pretty clearly a hypothetical. As in, he doesn’t see enough evidence to justify high confidence that libertarianism would not be terrible, which is perfectly in line with his statement that he doesn’t know which system is best.
It’s hypothetical about libertarianism. Other approaches have been tried, so the single data point does not generalise into anything like “no one ever has any evidential basis for choosing a political system or party”. To look at it from the other extreme, someone voting in a typical democracy is typically choosing between N parties (for a small N) each of which has been in power within living memory.