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Entry: The Wrongs of "Rights" Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_wrongs_of_rights#7419 Post contents: I suspect localized communities could only maintain severe practices of the kind you mention only at considerable cost to themselves in terms of economic prosperity and cordial relations with surrounding communities. To put it in more concrete terms, let's say the US was devolved into regional confederations of cities and counties. To the degree any supra-community government existed at all, it was only for common defense or sharing of resources like a reservoir or highway system. All other matters are local. So some county somewhere decides to set up a Taliban-theocracy. Imagine the costs to that county in terms of its relations, political, economic or otherwise, with surrounding areas. Imagine the flood of dissidents pouring over the county line. If the tyrants tried to simply eliminate emigration by killing those who attempt to exit, imagine what a pariah such a community would be. It may be subject to economic boycott. Obviously,a serious tourism industry would be out. Most persons of quality would never seek to immigrate there. Such a county might well be expelled from any larger federation it belonged to and be left to fend for itself so far as defense and other such matters. Sent at: 2008 07 09