Personal Responsibility & Freedom

Jan.30, 2010 By: Davy in External Content, Quick posts, UK Politics

We are all individuals and we are all—all of us—able to make our own decisions, to make our own choices. Those who abdicate their decisions to others have no more moral right to the privileges enjoyed by adult human beings than some beast.

Less, in fact, for the wild animal lives or dies by its own decisions—those moochers in our society who derogate their welfare to others are parasites on society. They exist on the product of better people’s hard work and offer only laziness, violence and misery in return.

Old Holborn
January 30th, 2010 at 5:47 pm
We agree

DavidNcl
January 31st, 2010 at 6:22 pm
I would really like to add you to my RSS feed reader but I cant.
Every time I try and click on your RSS Icon nothing happens.

DavidNcl
January 31st, 2010 at 6:35 pm
BTW the Rand quote or rather the strident position it represents is the main reason why the libertarian movement has zero traction.

Until we can all make a warm hearted case that we’d be better for the poor and the huddled masses then we’ll get fuck all support. Calling people moochers or parasites is not going to help.

Living as we do in a society which crushes enterprise, choice and actively shapes the thinking of millions in state brainwashing factories from childhood I think I can fairly say many have no real option but to live on welfare or tax credits (I do not) – a huge state apparatus exists to further this.

Calling these people parasites or looters is wrong. They are as much victims of the state as I am. If you want to win the argument tell us how being free will help the single mother on a sink estate dependant on benefits or the girl on the Tesco’s checkout or the penniless illiterate white “chav” living on welfare.

I can make that case.

misesuk
January 31st, 2010 at 8:58 pm
I agree 100%, righteous polemic is fun to read and write, but not a good way to convince people who are on the opposite side.

I think Harry Browne’s why government doesn’t work is the best I’ve read at focusing on various topics in positive ways that show the benefits of freedom instead of the negative ways that show the problems the state.

Not sure about the RSS thing, I will look into it, thanks for the heads up!