Politics | April 15, 2009 | 7 comments

Freedom Is Scary!

source: http://www.peacefreedomprosperity.com/?p=744

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Robert Heinlein wrote that “People fall into two categories:Those who wish to rule and those who have no such desire.” I have never had any desire to lead, I also have no desire to follow, mostly I’ve always just wanted to do my own thing and allow others the same latitude. I don’t think I know what’s right for the world, mostly because over the last 36 years I have only the been able to figure out what’s right for me. I know the laws I live by and they are not externally enforced, but rather my own code that I developed through trial and error.
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7 comments // Freedom Is Scary!

  • Toughth
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      Toughth  

    • Heinlien wrote about a particular system of government where the people who protect the system wou also be the only one able to searve the system. If you did not wish to searve the system that you belong to you had no right to say how it was run.

    • 3 years ago
  • artemis6
  • pinkerbelle
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      pinkerbelle  

    • Sounds like you're talking about the contraint and freedom that we have in our society. The government sets a bunch of rules for us to live by so that there can be some order and organization within our society, they've also given us some wiggle room so that we can still live by our own rules. Unfortunately the social rules (rules not set by the government but by us as citizens) are harder to change and harder to "wiggle" with. Sounds like the codes that you've developed on your own are your own rules within the rules of society and i commend you for coming up with your own rules and not just BLINDLESSLY following rules that don't fit your life. :o)

      Whatever you decide these rules to be, remember that the rules that are enforced by the government are not absolute and that you can change them and collectively as a society, we can change them. We have power within society...USE IT!

    • 3 years ago
  • ramosscooter1
  • CalgarC
  • JohnGalt
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      JohnGalt [removed]  
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    • We have a Keynesian system. Keynes advocated protectionism, tariffs, inflation of currency, and government interference in industry with central control of currency and banking, in other words a neo-mercantilism. Central control of money and credit and industry are also facets of “socialist” economics and governments.

    • 3 years ago
  • TruthBTold
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    • What seems to have happened is that we have become lazy and have come to a general conclusion (not legal) that those things, with which we do not agree that make us uncomfortable, are included in this protection. They are not, and never were. One of the most fundamental protections of The First Amendment is the right to be unpopular or wrong. This includes being hateful or counter-cultural. It also includes being traditional, religious or old-fashioned

    • 3 years ago
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