[ExI] Who are the libertarians?

[Anders Sandberg]

On 2013-07-02 02:43, Eugenio Martínez wrote:
>
>     Hmmm... so what does that make us here who think that Locke and
>     Hayek were roughly right, that individuals should be in charge of
>     their own lives, collectives do not have any moral value in
>     themselves, and that governments are dangerous imperfect tools
>     that should be used (carefully) only for the purposes to which
>     they are suited?
>
>
> I think that a clarification is needed.
>
> I am thinking on the liberalism from Europe (The neocon or 
> ultracapitalist), which is absolutely incompatible and that is not the 
> same that the neocons in USA.

What is their ideological tenets? Because I suspect you are not 
describing a real view, but rather your strawman view of something you 
do not like. So you pick up examples of people saying outrageous things 
and bundle them together into "this is what they think".


-- 
Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University

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