Difference between revisions of "What Is Liberty?"
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== Every Liberty Has Externalities == | == Every Liberty Has Externalities == | ||
Pretty much every action or inaction has externalities, things that can affect other people. Even just breathing: you consume oxygen and release heat. That sounds trivial, until you consider that we can construct circumstances where that could spell life or death for others, such as in a closed container. The liberty to homestead land has the externality that when all the land is homesteaded, there is none left for others to have the same liberty. Among other externalities having to do with the environment. For that reason, we might want to limit various liberties. | Pretty much every action or inaction has externalities, things that can affect other people. Even just breathing: you consume oxygen and release heat. That sounds trivial, until you consider that we can construct circumstances where that could spell life or death for others, such as in a closed container. The liberty to homestead land has the externality that when all the land is homesteaded, there is none left for others to have the same liberty. Among other externalities having to do with the environment. For that reason, we might want to limit various liberties. | ||
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== Liberties Always Conflict == | == Liberties Always Conflict == | ||
