Re: Right and left liberal and conservative

From: Samantha (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 02:24:34 MDT

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    On Wednesday 14 May 2003 11:56 am, Anders Sandberg wrote:

    > It is about underlying ideology, something which quite a few
    > politicians and citizens forget these days but which actually has
    > rather profound controlling effects on ideas. Conservatism is in
    > the abstract about conserving existing institutions against change,
    > liberalism (American sense, social democracy in Europe) is based on
    > the idea of using the government to create equality, and so on.

    Beware the excluded middle! Old-style liberalism is about individual
    freedom and rights with a minimal government strictly limited in the
    extent of its intereference with individuals and their organizations.
    Extropian old-style liberals (libertarians and so on) do not believe
    it desirable to create equality generally much less by government
    power and are at all interested in conserviing existing institutions.

    -s



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