Constitutional Libertarianism

Constitutional Libertarianism

Thursday, October 18, 2012

The Death Of Liberty Is ...Selfishness

To have liberty, in this country, the freedom to make choices for oneself instead of having some entity or group forcing them upon you, is something special in the world.  Sadly, too many people confuse liberty with selfishness nowadays.

Civil liberties and the "protection" of them in this country were intended (ah, there we go again with intentions)to make sure that certain things were not denied to people based on things they couldn't necessarily change. Ensuring that things like housing and the ability to go into store and shop, etc for things like skin color, physical or mental handicap.

There are some things "protected that could be chosen to change, but they are those kind of things that if people were forced to change them or were denied a living because of them, we might as well hang up the whole "freedom" ting anyway.  Something like religious beliefs for example. Religion is a choice, but it isn't a light choice.  It's something that affects our lives profoundly.

Fast forward to today.People want to make civil liberty issues out of personal choices to escape responsibility for their personal decisions.  It's not enough that they aren't denied the ability to do most anything they want, no.  Everyone else must be forced to accept and support that choice as well., is what they want.

Part of being free is accepting responsibility for yourself and your choices.  If someone invents something that is deemed largely un-safe or even dangerous to use and a few people make the choice to use it anyway, they have accepted a responsibility for their choice.  To tell everyone else that not only must we accept that they want to use that thing (no problem there as long as it hurts only the person using it if it hurts anyone at all) but that we must accept their using it even when it conflicts with other peoples choices and rights, well now, that's not OK, not at all.




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