I generally call myself a “technical libertarian,” by which I mean I am libertarian for technical reasons, not because I ‘technically’ fit the definition. I think a lot about systems and designing them, and Hayek’s concept of ‘information cost’ seems fundamental to designing any economic or political system. I typically contrast myself with “moral libertarians,” who reason from rights to policy, because I think most rights get ludicrous when taken to extremes. (Rothbard claims, at one point, that the principled libertarian position on pollution should be “no pollution unless you get consent from everyone that pollution could harm,” which would literally put us back to the Stone Age.) Largely because of this focus, I put an unusually low emphasis on political rights for a libertarian, which puts me very close to the NRx camp.
Tribally, I seem to be ‘pink,’ in that I think my grey tribe affiliation is strongest, followed by red tribe, with only a tiny bit of blue tribe affiliation.
I generally call myself a “technical libertarian,” by which I mean I am libertarian for technical reasons, not because I ‘technically’ fit the definition. I think a lot about systems and designing them, and Hayek’s concept of ‘information cost’ seems fundamental to designing any economic or political system. I typically contrast myself with “moral libertarians,” who reason from rights to policy, because I think most rights get ludicrous when taken to extremes. (Rothbard claims, at one point, that the principled libertarian position on pollution should be “no pollution unless you get consent from everyone that pollution could harm,” which would literally put us back to the Stone Age.) Largely because of this focus, I put an unusually low emphasis on political rights for a libertarian, which puts me very close to the NRx camp.
Tribally, I seem to be ‘pink,’ in that I think my grey tribe affiliation is strongest, followed by red tribe, with only a tiny bit of blue tribe affiliation.
Stone age people still had fires to warm their mud huts.
I suspect you could feasibly obtain consent from everyone damaged by a wood fire with population density that low.