If you knew what my attitude is, you could judge from it. You don’t, so you can’t.
“Acting irresponsibly is not ‘freedom’ it is irresponsible.”
Freedom means, so long as you do not physically harm or threaten to harm anyone else or their property, you can be as irresponsible as you like. Sorry so many people think freedom means everybody has to live the way they would like them to.
“Duty to those around you,” is socialism. Sorry, there is no such duty in a free country.
When I was young, no decent person would ever have used a disgusting expression like that. But then, people weren’t afraid of freedom, or of being totally responsible for themselves and their own lives. The idea in those days was, nobody owed you anything and you made it on your own, or didn’t make it.
I really do not think you know what freedom is, and I really think you would be afraid to live in a country that is truly free. I don’t blame you for that, but it is sad. By the way, my “happiness” is not determined by circumstances, and I wish you the happiness I enjoy, in my freedom, because my freedom does not depend on circumstances either. Circumstances and today’s oppressive government just make it more difficult.
Hank
Good post...
‘Freedom means, so long as you do not physically harm or threaten to harm anyone else or their property, you can be as irresponsible as you like’
But he was around other people and he was having an effect on them. Under your definition you can run around carrying a gun and threaten to kill someone. Until you actually shoot them you are just exercising your ‘freedom’.
“When I was young, no decent person would ever have used a disgusting expression like that”
Duty, honor, country ring a bell? Old and stupid eh.
“I really do not think you know what freedom is, and I really think you would be afraid to live in a country that is truly free. “
Living in anarchy with idiots like this running around is kinda scary. Even in the old days people behaving irresponsibly would be arrested and thrown in jail. In the old days that is just what would have happened to a guy running around scaring people.