Difference between revisions of "What Is Liberty?"
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[[What Are Rights?|Rights are liberties that are coercively defended]]: others are forced not to interfere. If you have a right to cross a bridge, your liberty is defended by law. But the important thing is that rights are created by enforcing duties on others, destroying THEIR liberties. You may want liberty to cross a bridge, and get a right to cross the bridge; but that means everybody else loses their liberty to interfere with your crossing. They have a duty to not interfere. That coerced duty to not interfere is the reason B in the model above. That is a huge externality! | [[What Are Rights?|Rights are liberties that are coercively defended]]: others are forced not to interfere. If you have a right to cross a bridge, your liberty is defended by law. But the important thing is that rights are created by enforcing duties on others, destroying THEIR liberties. You may want liberty to cross a bridge, and get a right to cross the bridge; but that means everybody else loses their liberty to interfere with your crossing. They have a duty to not interfere. That coerced duty to not interfere is the reason B in the model above. That is a huge externality! | ||
| − | + | Creation of a right means that a choice has been made by the defender of the right about how liberty should be distributed. It doesn't matter whether it is a right of rule for a dictator or a right to an item personal property: a coercive choice has been made that one will have that liberty and everyone else will not. A right such as property in something is a liberty for one, and the opposite of a liberty (a duty) for everybody else. | |
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== Why We Need To Choose Which Liberties We Value == | == Why We Need To Choose Which Liberties We Value == | ||
| + | == Examples That Could Be Explained By This Model == | ||
== Triadic Liberty == | == Triadic Liberty == | ||
== Positive and Negative Liberty == | == Positive and Negative Liberty == | ||
== Why Ability and Resources Are Essential to a Liberty == | == Why Ability and Resources Are Essential to a Liberty == | ||
