Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!mwm From: mwm@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: libertarians in space Message-ID: <22400009@ea.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 21:53:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ea.22400009 Posted: Wed Sep 19 21:53:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 21:18:04 EDT References: <4320@utzoo.UUCP> Lines: 18 Nf-ID: #R:utzoo:-432000:ea:22400009:000:711 Nf-From: ea!mwm Sep 19 20:53:00 1984 /***** ea:net.politics / flairvax!baba / 6:38 pm Sep 17, 1984 */ And there are going to be lots and lots of rules and laws that will restrict the liberties of people living in these colonies, if only because there are more ways in which a stupid or malicious person can harm (i.e. kill) the community when even the air they breathe is available only through the efforts of many men and machines. Seems to me to me to be the *last* place I'd expect to find Libertarians. Baba /* ---------- */ Why? If the rules in question are more reasonable than those on earth (not hard to imagine, given the state of the rules on earth), they would be very attractive to libertarians (note the small l).