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http://www.amazon.com/Escape-Leviathan-Liberty-Welfare-Reconciled/dp/0312234163Jan Lester came very close to identifying descriptive ethics of the high trust society we call northwestern european aristocratic egalitarian – the North Sea Peoples.

He came very close. Closer than anyone else.

And, regardless of criticisms we can lay against his work, we must acknowledge that he came very close to the correct answer: a universally descriptive system of ethics.

Now, it has become clear, that liberty is in fact incompatible with sociobiological diversity. And I am fairly sure that it’s impossible to refute that criticism. As such, while liberty is not incompatible within a tribe of closely related people, it is entirely incompatible within diverse polity, that has access to political power, whether by bureaucratic or propertarian means.

That said, Lester’s arguments are informative, as are Hoppe’s, for those homogenous societies with indifferent sociobiological capabilities, reproductive structures, and structures of production.

Even if they do not help us with societies in conflict on their borders with competing social orders, or within their borders with competing moral and sociobiological orders.

The fact that lester’s ‘externalization of costs’ is half-right, is still better than everyone else’s arguments, prior to Propertarianism’s universally descriptive ethics.