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I am not an academic and completely unfamiliar with the conventions of this sort of abstract. But here is the best I can do. “Brian Doherty” discusses his evolution in libertarian thinking, from a beginning inchoate sense that cruelty is to be avoided and then through a chain of reading connections through the ILLUMINATUS! trilogy and Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson through the works of Murray Rothbard and Walter Block gaining a sense that free-market libertarianism is the least cruel system.
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Doherty, B. (2023). Thinking About and Working Toward a Less Cruel World. In: Cavallo, J.A., Block, W.E. (eds) Libertarian Autobiographies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29608-6_16
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