[extropy-chat] is freedom overrated?

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Al Brooks <kerry_prez at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Look, Mike I'm not saying freedom is unimportant, only that it might
> be overrated. It's like love: every day of my life I've been hearing
> about 'love', but to some love is Jesus Christ; to others love is a
> plastic $3.99 dildo. I've heard ceacelessly about freedom after
> growing up (when you live with your parents when young you know their
> freedom, not your own) but have also heard those that exalt freedom
> so much complain that the lives they have chosen restrict their
> freedom oh so much. A freedom-obsessed Republican radio talk show
> host complains the different liberty-promoting jobs (radio talk show;
> Independence Institute head; Independence TV show) he has restrict
> his own freedom. yet nobody put a gun to his head forcing him to run
> from one studio to another. Ask him 'why so many positions'? 
> "I've got two kids" he responds.
>  So perhaps, just maybe, he is using love of freedom as a cover for
> something else, such as money, power & all that. I could go on to a
> pontification of how so many --possibly all-- might be using freedom
> to cover will to power, but you ought to be spared a diatribe on
> freedom or lack thereof. Leave it that freedom might be overrated,
> hope it is no sin to voice such a sentiment at extropy-chat.

Being free is about self ownership. Having self ownership means an
unlimited power to contract and to enforce those contracts as well as
to have them enforced upon yourself (i.e. responsibility). Taking too
many jobs, or having too many kids is you contracting for
responsibility that is a trade off against your liberty. The key is
that you freely choose this responsibility by your own positive acts
and do not have them forced upon you. Involuntary servitude is wrong.
Voluntary servitude is not.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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