[OWK]

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.

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Rights belong to individuals.

Not to town councils presuming to speak on behalf of all.

The right to determine disposition of one's own property, is not morally subject to the whims of one's neighbors.

Although if it was a concern to those in a particular neighborhood, they most certainly could enter into restrictive property use covenants voluntarily.

They may NOT however, invent and enforce such restrictions involuntarily... at least not morally.

[JohnGalt]

And this is where conservatives who believe in organic communities based on the classical size of 20,000 differ from the ideological libertarians.

But as Murray Rothbard told his paleo-conservative friend Tom Fleming, 'after we get rid of the 90% of what the US government that immoral, illegal, and often evil, we can fight tooth and nail over the last 10%.

The point of my post is not to debate the minutae of ideological difference, but to discuss the article in relation to political science/theory. I saw the article as nothing more than an apology for the state and aimed my guns at the faux libertarians and faux conservatives.