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A strong benefit of seasteading is that a small group of people can pick and choose which things they want to be legal. For example, you cite a couple things wh
by Uhhrrr 5y ago
A strong benefit of seasteading is that a small group of people can pick and choose which things they want to be legal. For example, you cite a couple things which are legal in Germany, but homeschooling isn't legal there, nor is vacuuming on Sunday.
- cardanome 5y agoWanting to homeschool you kids but not being willing to give up easy access to legal prostitution is a very strange hill to die on. I get what you are saying but Libertarians seem to ignore elementary freedoms in favor of picking really weird fights. What elementary freedoms? Not having to starve to death. Not being bankrupted by health care costs. Not having to fear for my live. No having to live in a society where people lack basic education. Enjoying well maintained public roads. Being taking care of when getting old. They have some weird ultra-naive definitions of freedom that only seems to include absence of rules. Like they see not being able to vacuum on a Sunday, not the freedom to enjoy a quiet Sunday. (Well at least I can dream about, it is not as enforced as people here probably believe.) Everything is give and take. Societies thrive when people are willing to compromise.
- Uhhrrr 5y agoThe "elementary freedoms" you list should more properly be considered entitlements. The advantage of the seasteading scheme is that different groups can pick different hills to die on. There are probably people who would like the worst of both the US and Germany: no shopping on Sunday, alcohol only to be bought at state liquor stores, no noise at certain hours, no driving over 55 miles per hour. I think it would be great if they had a floating* island all to themselves. * if it didn't float, that would be fine too