Constitutional Libertarianism

Constitutional Libertarianism

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

So, This Liberty "Thang"

There is a balance that must be kept between individual liberty and the community as a whole when we live in a town or city.

The problem seems to be that in these times, in name of "safety", in the response to fear, the balance is tipping away from individual liberty.

This is an extremely bad thing.  The rallying cry of the "group" always seems to come down to "If it saves just one..., Then it will be worth it."   That kind of thinking my friends is dangerous and un-true.

Now, I am a notorious isolationist and under other circumstances,  I might relish tossing the many to save the one, but even I realize that all communities start with families.

So balance must be sought.  A tightrope walk that never ends.  We must always ensure the individual has the largest amount of liberty as possible.  At the same time, those individual liberties end where the next person's begins.

As I said in the previous post though, group-thinking seeks to remove individual liberty in the name of safety and security.  Group-thinking is an agent of fear.

More than that though, group-thinking is an agent of control.  Our government was originally designed to make sure the many were above the few.  That small groups of "special people" would not have dominion over the many.

Because this is not a country of many people united as a group of minions or ants in an ant hill.

We are united as individuals with a common cause.  That is in our Constitution.  We are recognized as equal individuals first and foremost.  We cannot or should not, be making laws and regulations that does not take the concern of each individual into consideration.

We should elect representatives to stand for us to do the best job of looking out for the interests of ALL the people in that representative's district.  They should not be looking out for only the interests of the members of his or her party or "club".  Yet it happens more and more each election.

There are people who want to raise taxes  to use taxation as a tool to stop hurting themselves.  That is not what taxation is meant for.  It is not that group of people's place to stop the individual from doing something that might hurt themself.  That is the right, choice, responsibility and consequence of the individual.

You know what else is in our Constitution?  The direction to protect the minorities.  What minorities are those?  Most people think that it is a religious, racial, etc.. minority.

What it really refers to is the voting minority.  The group of people who held the smaller number of the vote.  Now, that might come down to religious, racial or other reasons that numbers in the election were so small, they just weren't there to represent a larger share.  

Our Constitution says that even if one side has the majority (vote) they can't just run roughshod over the minority.  Considerations have to be made to respect those people's individual liberties as well.

That consideration is being lost.  The Constitution is being ignored by the group-thinkers pushed by fear and greed and desire to control.

If we really want to get this country back on track, we have to find balance again and allow people to make their own choices and live with the consequences of them.


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