I generally call myself a "technical libertarian," by which I mean I am libertarian for technical reasons, not because I 'technically' fit the definition. I think a lot about systems and designing them, and Hayek's concept of 'information cost' seems fundamental to designing any economic or political system. I typically contrast myself with "moral libertarians," who reason from rights to policy, because I think most rights get ludicrous when taken to extremes. (Rothbard claims, at one point, that the principled libertarian position on pollution should be "no pollution unless you get consent from everyone that pollution could harm," which would literally put us back to the Stone Age.) Largely because of this focus, I put an unusually low emphasis on political rights for a libertarian, which puts me very close to the NRx camp.
Tribally, I seem to be 'pink,' in that I think my grey tribe affiliation is strongest, followed by red tribe, with only a tiny bit of blue tribe affiliation.
"no pollution unless you get consent from everyone that pollution could harm," which would literally put us back to the Stone Age.
Stone age people still had fires to warm their mud huts.
In the big survey, political views are divided into large categories so that statistics are possible. This article is an attempt to supply a text field so that we can get a little better view of the range of beliefs.
My political views aren't adequately expressed by "libertarian". I call myself a liberal-flavored libertarian, by which I mean that I want the government to hurt people less. The possibility that the government is giving too much to poor people is low on my list of concerns. I also believe that harm-causing processes should be shut down before support systems
So, what political beliefs do you have that don't match the usual meaning of your preferred label?