A quote: ” When you feel freedom, it’s because the laws that are present make you feel good”.
“True” freedom has nothing to do with feelings. And if you are bound by a law, how in the world can anybody think that makes anybody more free?!
Much of the “freedom” Americans “feel” so far this year has a LOT less to do with what laws are present, but a LOT MORE to do with what laws are NOT present, and what arbitrary dictates are not present.
But to the extent Americans “feel” free so far this year, much of that is illusion anyway. Unconstitutional executive orders multiply, grand theft inflation continues robbing value from the monopoly currency along with interest rate price-fixing, regulations multiply, and now we have this 1,500-page Godzilla eating the livelihood of everyday common Americans.
Another quote: When you feel liberty, its because your fellow citizens permit you to be free.
A. Forget the “feel”, please. In reality, people “are” more “free”, by both your definition and mine, by the way, to the extent that citizens respect the principle of non-aggression. No citizen has ANY ethical or moral right, at least no “natural” right, to aggress and natural law demands that they respect it.
When they don’t, then the principle of self-defense kicks in with a role. Ted Cruz, for example, is absolutely doing the right thing. I don’t care how many people voted for Obama or how they forced this oppressive and freedom-killing law down our throats, it’s going to make Americans sicker than ever along with the EPA‘s rules and the FDA‘s and the FCC‘s rules.
In both cases, they are management processes. Some are societal, laws; others are individual or group management processes that respect the laws in place and in some case self-restraining processes.
And that, my friend, to be brutally honest, is a semantical tap dance to avoid the non-agression principle, and recognizing that central planning and collectivism and involuntary anything is an aggression against freedom, against the individual.
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