Comment Deserve Freedom (Score 1) 235
And what of the freedom to rape your sister in the A**? Or pimp your children? Should you be allowed to kill your co-workers for interfeering with your climb to corporate success?
There are limits to your rights. We base laws on what we think these limitations should be. After a greate deal of violence and social tension, American citizens decided that we DON'T have the right to descriminate based on race. It's illegal buddy.
Not that I would advocate something simply because of the law. Concider this. Your freedom to descriminate against {chose a minority} infringes on that minory's freedom to persue their lively-hood or whatever. What makes your freedom a priority over theirs?
If you're a fundamental libertarian, you should be prepared to accept the erosion of all of your basic human rights: your right to live, your right to property, your right to personal securty (read your rigth to not be raped) etc. You give up these rights when you accept freedom to behave in any way you choose (kill people, steal from people, rape people).
If you're not willing to give up these rights, then you must accept some imposition on your freedom. If you're willing to give up these rights, then I hope you can see that it is ultimately to your benifit to give up some freedom, in order to enforce the rights of yourself and other. I hope that you can see then problem with argueing for freedom for freedom's sake.
Be careful what you ask for. You might get it.
There are limits to your rights. We base laws on what we think these limitations should be. After a greate deal of violence and social tension, American citizens decided that we DON'T have the right to descriminate based on race. It's illegal buddy.
Not that I would advocate something simply because of the law. Concider this. Your freedom to descriminate against {chose a minority} infringes on that minory's freedom to persue their lively-hood or whatever. What makes your freedom a priority over theirs?
If you're a fundamental libertarian, you should be prepared to accept the erosion of all of your basic human rights: your right to live, your right to property, your right to personal securty (read your rigth to not be raped) etc. You give up these rights when you accept freedom to behave in any way you choose (kill people, steal from people, rape people).
If you're not willing to give up these rights, then you must accept some imposition on your freedom. If you're willing to give up these rights, then I hope you can see that it is ultimately to your benifit to give up some freedom, in order to enforce the rights of yourself and other. I hope that you can see then problem with argueing for freedom for freedom's sake.
Be careful what you ask for. You might get it.
