Lewis and his City Libertarian ilk suffer from a failure of moral logic, in that they wish to be seen as heroic figures, rescuing the world from tribal and ideological tyranny whilst affecting an ignorance of the consequences of their own actions. Performing this improbable manoeuvre requires a refusal to acknowledge a rather obvious and inescapable fact: that an individual's freedoms do not exist in a vacuum; they very often press against the freedoms of other individuals.