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To: TimF who wrote (7808)	12/21/2005 3:35:13 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541991

You can have a libertarian society that is anything but multiculturalist, you can even have a closed off isolated, culturally rigid, libertarian society. Absolutely not. That is what evolution is all about. There is no way that a system as open as libertarian philosophy will not evolve diversity, even if by some magic it started from both physical and mental clones. It is not a static system. But the level of control and regulation hardly needs to be anything like the level currently existing in Manhattan. Limited government and a large degree of individual freedom is not incompatible with living in a city. But Manhattan is a democracy, and the rules and regulations in place there arise from a democratic process. If in fact, people in high density situations end up voting socialistic, I'd say that is the fate of libertarians in high density situations. It may well happen through ignorance rather than clear logic, but so what? That just comes back to my original statement, which I still stand by, which is for whatever reasons, high population density results in left/collective thinking, while lower population density is more supportive of right/libertarian thinking, with the caveat about property vs. expression. I happen to think the reasons why are obvious, but you guys disagree. Oh well...