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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: neolib who wrote (7756)12/21/2005 1:30:05 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 542009
 
Some libertarians are more conservative and some are more liberal, in the terms of modern American political categories, however I think you would find most libertarians are strong on both of the issues you raise. One might care more about property rights, or more about freedom of speech, but I wouldn't call someone who didn't think either one or the other of those issues where important, a libertarian.

Also I think you are focusing on two specific forms of liberty. While most libertarians would care about both, they might have a special concern for other aspects of liberty besides those two.


I still maintain that higher population density is unfavorable to libertarian principles for the simple fact that the interconnections are stronger, hence the latitude for individual freedom is diminished.

I guess whether I agree or not depends on what you mean by interconnections. Certainly something you do in the middle of a city is likely to affect others more than something you do in the middle of nowhere. But you don't have to be a hard-line inflexible doctrinaire libertarian to be a libertarian. Someone in the city might care just as much about libertarian ideas as someone in the country but the ideas have to be implemented in balance with other important ideas and with the situation at hand. For example on a large plot of private land in the country its probably just fine for you to produce a lot of noise even at 3AM. If you do that in a city you will disturb lots of people. Both the city libertarian and the country libertarian might feel the same about tradeoffs between liberty and controlling annoying disturbances but in the country the same act will not produce an annoying disturbance.

Thinking about it I'm not sure that "interconnections" is a good term for what you are trying to get across. Often people in the country are more interconnected with their neighbors. In the city there are more people that you are to a degree connected with, but probably for that very reason the interconnections with many of them are very shallow.

Tim
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