[OWK]

OWK and most libertarians would argue that a town of 20,000 can make whatever laws and ordinances it wants...

The question, is whether it may do so morally.

I would argue that anything that is immoral for an individual to do, remains immoral if attempted by state.

Morality does not benefit from economies of scale.

If it is immoral for me to stick a gun in my neighbor's face to pay for my grandmother's kidney transplant, then it is likewise immoral for 100,000,000 of my neighbors to do so.

[JohnGalt]

It was not the morality issue but the practical issue. If the property owners of a town decide that zoning out porn shops and abortion clinics is something they want to do, an outside force does not have the right to tell them they must have porn shops and abortion clinics.

You are correct, ideologically speaking of course you are doctrinaire perfect and always have been, but there is no need to pit radical libertarians against radical localists when we are debating statist apologists who pull out the sex in the streets canard...

[justshutupandtakeit]

Morality only applies to individuals. Individuals are the only creatures with a conscience. Moral pertains to personal behavior. Paradoxically morality only comes from the group. Its root meaning is "custom."

States are not judged in terms of morality except by the confused. They are amoral when we are lucky.