[mjp]

The libtards who favor paternalism lose sight of the fact that the fundamental basis of achieving the individual's good is his guidance by his own judgment. They show absolutely no respect for the character of the consumers as rational beings, who must be persuaded by facts and logic, and not be compelled as though they were brutes, in the name of something allegedly more valuable than their free judgment and their dignity as rational beings.

Each human being, as the possessor of reason, is valuable and competent and should be free to run his own life and pursue his own happiness. The use of any specific case as the pretext for overturning this principle opens the floodgates to unlimited destruction though the use of physical force to overrule people’s judgment, and thus, to prevent them from achieving their well-being or to compel them to act against their own well-being.

[okie01]

Each human being, as the possessor of reason, is valuable and competent and should be free to run his own life and pursue his own happiness.

But, to the liberal elite, all those who are not one of them are dismissed as members of the lumpen prolotariat -- neither valuable, nor competent, nor capable of being free.

Suitable only to serve the liberal elite.