[expatguy]

Wow you just read my mind.

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An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[PGalt]

OUTSTANDING! Bravo!

WELCOME ABOARD, conkle73!

[andy58-in-nh]

Liberty: Not yet gone, not forgotten: just unpopular in an age of easy virtue and instant gratification.

[mjp]

The mob or collective is free to vote away the rights and property of the individual.

1)basic principle of the philosophy of liberty:each man owns his own life and therefore has the right to do anything he wants with that life, so long as he does not interfere forcibly with the rights of any other man.

2)principle of non-compromise: no execptions or compromises with the basic principle of liberty.

3)there is no right to force others to be altruistic.

[TheWasteLand]

Some lessons are forgotten, and some are never learned in the first place. The Illustrated Road to Serfdom.

[Dutchboy88]

I’m sure the flames will start here, but sometimes so-called “liberty” is an impossibility as a nation grows up. For example, should I have the liberty to put anything I wish down a drain? Why not? How about something toxic? Why not? You limit your own “liberty” all the time when you agree that stopping at stop light is a “greater good” for the community than liberty to go whenever you want. Or, perhaps you believe all law is simply tyrannical oppression. If so, you will never be happy in a country. You need your own island.

[mnehring]

Bump and ditto.
I believe that many forget the key point you make, Liberty is not Anarchy. The tenth amendment is there for a reason.