By day, a software engineer for YouTube. By night, I am involved in way too many politics discussions online.

Warning: I read treatises. You'd think this renders me un-dateable, but it turns out that's simply not true. It does mean my partners put up with a fair bit of loquaciousness.

I lean steeply libertarian with a decidedly humanitarian value system. I want people to have the best chance they can to fulfill their own purposes, while not infringing on others trying to do the same. Conflict is where it gets messy, and that's where I tend libertarian, because I find that in civil society is where problems get solved sustainably, as opposed to the government sector where problems become winner-take-all fights, with temporary solutions torn down by the next party to take power.

There are moral arguments for libertarian thought, and I see some value in them, though my original reason for getting to this place is that I concluded that government (as a monopoly on force) does not do what its advocates claim it does, or at least not as well as they think, and so I have become skeptical of state-centric solutions.