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That's pretty loaded language, but it makes sense. When an area is sparsely populated it doesn't matter as much how people behave. They aren't harming other pe
by jandrese 5y ago
That's pretty loaded language, but it makes sense.
When an area is sparsely populated it doesn't matter as much how people behave. They aren't harming other people because there are none around.
As the population density increases the same actions like emitting pollution of one kind or another (air, sound, light, etc...) becomes a problem and all of the other people come together to ask you to stop, thus infringing on your liberties.
All of society is just people trying to get along with your neighbors. The more people you live near with the harder it is to stay on good relations with all of them. As the population continues to grow it becomes increasingly difficult to not live near other people, effectively impossible for an ever growing percentage of the population.
Some of this may even partially explain the rural/urban divide in politics.
- fancifalmanima 5y ago"all of the other people come together to ask you to stop, thus infringing on your liberties." You've very insight-fully described the policy debate/disagreement between people in pretty much any liberal democracy. Respecting my property rights is actually an infringement on your liberty. Not being able to legally kill me without some just cause is also an infringement on your liberty. What's often lost in the conversation on liberty is that everyone agrees that its a matter of degree. IE -- everyone having absolute liberty isn't viable. Absolute liberty would effectively just be an anarchy. Its just a matter of where the lines are. But somehow the conversation ends up getting reduced absolutes on both sides.
- jfrunyon 5y ago> Respecting my property rights is actually an infringement on your liberty No, disrespecting other people's property rights is an infringement on their liberty. You being told not to disrespect other people's rights is NOT an infringement on your liberty. > Not being able to legally kill me without some just cause is also an infringement on your liberty WTF? > everyone agrees that its a matter of degree Oh how I wish that were true. Not even most people can agree on that.