Comments on: Travelogue 1: To trust, to play, to trick http://www.mushon.com/fall08/nmrs/09/07/travelogue-1-game-theory-thoughts/ Research Tools & Media Environments | NYU Media Culture & Communication | Fall 2008 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:16:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: meghak http://www.mushon.com/fall08/nmrs/09/07/travelogue-1-game-theory-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-22 meghak Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:10:39 +0000 http://www.mushon.com/fall08/nmrs/?p=81#comment-22 I think the idea of creating a society of positive liberties without coercion is really interesting (obviously. I wrote my post on it.) because along with the freedom to do things, there is also an expectation that something should be done--and sometimes, even more specifically, an expectation of what exactly should be done. In an essence, this defeats the whole idea of liberty. To be honest, up until this point, I was actually kind of a fan of negative liberties. I read "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill my freshman year and thought that was what the world needed--a way for people to live their lives as their little hearts desired without interference. In a way, I felt it promoted tolerance, albeit a somewhat forced, disingenuous tolerance. But looking at it in the context of governments and revolutions and the way in which liberty can be constructed is kind of making me question that. I think the idea of creating a society of positive liberties without coercion is really interesting (obviously. I wrote my post on it.) because along with the freedom to do things, there is also an expectation that something should be done–and sometimes, even more specifically, an expectation of what exactly should be done. In an essence, this defeats the whole idea of liberty.

To be honest, up until this point, I was actually kind of a fan of negative liberties. I read “On Liberty” by John Stuart Mill my freshman year and thought that was what the world needed–a way for people to live their lives as their little hearts desired without interference. In a way, I felt it promoted tolerance, albeit a somewhat forced, disingenuous tolerance.

But looking at it in the context of governments and revolutions and the way in which liberty can be constructed is kind of making me question that.

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