Cool! A discussion where the anarchists are represented clearly! Do I understand libertarianism the way sgentle does? He compares anarchism:libertarianism::per

Cool! A discussion where the anarchists are represented clearly! Do I understand libertarianism the way sgentle does? He compares anarchism:libertarianism::permissive license:GPL, so I guess he's using libertarianism in the sense of "absolute minimum amount of government necessary to enforce property rights." As to whether you preserve freedom best by causing "unfreedoms," philosophy already has some pretty useful things to say, such as ue_'s comment: Hegel ... described the freedom of the savage being a kind of unrefined freedom Some freedoms are conflicting by their very definition. Resolving the conflict is at its core the imposition of an ordering over the set of all freedoms, or in other words, a value system. Almost all the discussion on this article can be reduced to a comparison of well known value systems and attempts to sway readers to one or another.