[ExI] Political Relativism (was very informative)

[Anton Sherwood]

On 2020-12-30 17:00, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:
> Anton, if I am reading this right, you are a right wing
> authoritarian.

I stripped the signs as redundant because I used the verbal label; the
quiz (for all its obvious faults) calls me a mid-right libertarian.

> [....]  Free market, yes, but in some cases highly regulated, like 
> the businesses that deal with food or drugs, for safety's sake.
> Others need regulation for pollution problems.  In other words, a
> corporation should not be allowed to endanger anyone, and they will
> if you let them.  I don't trust people to put their net profits aside
> and do good for humanity.  [....]

May I assume that you don't think civil tort liability (from which
regulation is often a shield) could adequately address negative
externalities?

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