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