The influence of gaslight or electric light on the growth of paraheliotropic trees

Aretae says …

http://aretae.blogspot.com/2009/08/klings-triangle.html

Jon Haidt, one of my favorite psychologists (not least because he demolishes Kohlberg’s silly moral stages), has a perhaps more complete answer. He suggests that the liberal/progressive side of the fence politically operates off of only 2 moral dimensions (harm/care, and fairness/reciprocity), while the conservative ethics usually operates off all 5 human moral dimensions (including also: Ingroup/Loyalty, Authority/Respect, and Purity/Sanctity).

Libertarians are weird, so we don’t count.

I think this account does a good job of explaining why liberals differ from conservatives on the importance of income equality. From conservative POV, Bill Gates deserves his money from a respect/authority position.

From a liberal POV, fairness trumps that, and suggests that while Bill may deserve some reward, but the scope of his reward is way out of line, regardless what he did.

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2009/08/what_is_real_fr.html

Arnold Kling defines freedom as “absence of monopoly” saying that what matters MOST is a right to exit, touching on the possibilities of charter cities — (the danger here is the everpresent danger of White-Flight, which is the Privileged [who didn’t get that way by accident] cashing out before the game is over).

Kling argues that people would & could prefer a right to exit than a right to vote. Maybe (and yes, no country should force people to stay, only to abide by certain rules if they do decide to stay –)

But what about people who can’t exit, who are stuck where they are? (Kling might argue that those people should have the right to *exit* in place)

So what about the *right to exit in place*? Nozick talks about this ASU. Well, to a certain extent this is possible in America to a point. What’s required is that it happen in an area not already controlled by a local government — and in America, there’s plenty of those places. Why not allow it within the boundaries of continguous communities? Maybe because the Rights of your Neighbors not to live in a Gerrymandered Balkinized Community where everyone pays what they will is an effective Veto on your right to opt out of the rules of the local area. And that if you want to opt-out, you either need to get your neighbors to agree or go somewhere where there are no neighbords.

To some things, our neighbors are so geographically disparate that everywhere within the sovereign borders is a neighbor, and there can be no opt-outs, only votes. However, Kling, and Nozick is right that a Maximization of Freedom should be careful about how many rules the Federal Government requires >> thereby promoting, within reason, the laboratory of federalism.

However, given that there are large number of people who can’t leave, because of economic reasons, there should be some binding rules that cannot be exited from. Otherwise, there might be strong incentives to spoil and move on.

(The soundtrack is Furr by Blitzen Trapper)

Across the field, the long grass pushing up past ankles white, to the twisting fringed hem of a blue and black skirt, with small gold bells sown in at intervals as as she ran to me it was if the whole world was singing –

Gypsy Moon, she is, the Gypsy Moon.

And he said to her, “You must know that men think you are beautiful,”

He was looking at her while he said it, believing it himself, but saying it this way, the eternal hedge, saying but not saying.

Charlie Chester had rolled out of bed some time between 10 and 2 that morning, checking his email on his five year old laptop (none, if it could be trusted), ate some Raisin Crunch cereal with orange juice instead of milk, thrown on a sweaty dirty t-shirt, lit a half-smoked joint, and slipped his Bob Ross VHS into the VCR and collapsed on his couch.

Approximately two hours (and seven happy trees) later, the Thong song by Sisquo started playing on Charlie’s phone. This — like always — was somewhat of a rude awakening for Charlie, who scrambled — a half-hearted scramble — to locate the device before the music stopped.

Movie industry wants the right to take your house off the net without full judicial review