what do /you/ think a good LW post about liberty, freedom, and fundamental human rights would look like?
As other commenters in this thread have pointed out, these topics are politically charged and are little more than applause lights in most contexts. The LW community is really good at spotting applause lights and meaningless statements, so a post that discusses liberty in conventional terms would be downvoted into oblivion—and rightfully so, I think, because a post that treats abstract concepts like liberty as black boxes would probably be pretty confused. However, if you wrote a reductionistic post that dissolved our intuitions about freedom and liberty, that would be far more interesting and useful.
Adding to this, a good question to ask about liberty is why we value it. Then you can deal directly with the way we want society to be, rather than obscure the reality by describing it through the conventional black-box terms.
As other commenters in this thread have pointed out, these topics are politically charged and are little more than applause lights in most contexts. The LW community is really good at spotting applause lights and meaningless statements, so a post that discusses liberty in conventional terms would be downvoted into oblivion—and rightfully so, I think, because a post that treats abstract concepts like liberty as black boxes would probably be pretty confused. However, if you wrote a reductionistic post that dissolved our intuitions about freedom and liberty, that would be far more interesting and useful.
Adding to this, a good question to ask about liberty is why we value it. Then you can deal directly with the way we want society to be, rather than obscure the reality by describing it through the conventional black-box terms.