[REPOST] The Non-Libertarian FAQ

A repost of the foundational Non-Libertarian FAQ ('Why I Hate Your Freedom', c.2013), a comprehensive systematic critique of hard-line libertarianism across economic, social, political, moral, and practical issues. Its load-bearing contributions became SSC/rationalist canon: the coordination-problem/market-failure case for government (the fish-farm/filter parable that directly seeds Moloch; the boycott and charity coordination-failures; the labor-bargaining asymmetry), consequentialism-as-gold-standard with rights-as-heuristics ('rights are conclusions not premises'; the alchemy/nuclear-physics analogy), the marginal-utility movie-tickets defense of progressive taxation, the 'taxation is theft = equivocation' move, and the Amazon-Death-Flu reductio of pure NAP libertarianism. Scott notes it no longer fully reflects his views and reposts it for historical interest.

Quality 85 · Excellent. High-Excellent: a comprehensive, lucid, deeply influential foundational text — one of the works that made his reputation and directly seeded Moloch; scored ON MERIT and calibrated to the structurally-identical Anti-Reactionary FAQ (85). Held below Landmark because it synthesizes largely-standard economics/moral philosophy in FAQ form and is uneven/dated (the author himself distances from it). 85.

Claude’s paradigm shift 64 · Notable shift. At original publication a strongly-original systematization that installed a durable frame (coordination problems → market-failure case for government, rights-as-heuristics), though much of the underlying econ/ethics had precedent. B64.

Real-world impact 4 · Moderate. A canonical, widely-referenced feeder text in the rationalist sphere whose coordination-problem framing seeded Moloch; broad discourse adoption (sibling to the Consequentialism FAQ, RWI4) but no material/institutional change. RWI4.