Individual liberty and reciprocity are the highest values in an extropian approach to law and legal issues. These values follow naturally from a desire for self transformation and a stress on social systems that arise as a spontaneous ordering of free individuals. Accordingly, extropians look to legal systems as tools for freely ordering their own lives and their interactions with others and they resist the use of law as a tool of repression or coercion. Extropians strongly question the presumption underlying the current almost universal paradigm of law that assumes that law is inextricably intertwined with the power of the state. They seek to free the law from this confining assumption as much as possible and see the law more as a fluid ground of action for ordering the affairs of individuals on a consensual basis.
Individual responsibility is the necessary corollary of the extropian stress on individual liberty.
Tolerance and personal privacy are naturally very high values in extropian legal thinking. Thus extropians believe that strong encryption and a completely free Internet are basic foundations of the world they seek to build. Extropian legal thinkers also seek to apply the value of intelligent technology to legal systems. Extropian lawyers stay on the cutting edge of technology in the practice of law. Extropians foresee many new challenges to the use of law as a tool for ordering the lives of free individuals.