{"id":11003,"date":"2015-08-14T08:12:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T13:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11003"},"modified":"2015-08-14T08:12:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T13:12:40","slug":"peddling-the-corruption-of-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11003","title":{"rendered":"Peddling the Corruption of Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peddling the Corruption of Liberty<\/a><\/h3>\n

Liberty\u2019s Detractors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ever since the idea of individual liberty has achieved some measure of credibility over the world, those who would be unseated by its limited triumph had to find some way to discredit it or trump it somehow. One way was to re-christen servitude, to make it appear like an even more important kind of liberty than what individual liberty, properly understood, amounts to.<\/p>\n

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When a human being is free in the most important, political sense, he or she is sovereign. This means he or she governs his or her own life\u2014others must refrain from intruding on this life, plain and simple. That life may be fortunate or not, rich or not, beautiful or not, and many other things or not, but what matters is that that life is no one else\u2019s to mess with. One gets to run it, no one else does.<\/p>\n

Now this is a very uncomfortable idea for all those folks who see all kinds of benefits from running other people\u2019s lives. But they cannot champion this now in so many words, what with individual liberty having gained solid standing, so the only way to remedy matters for them is to claim that their oppression brings even greater freedom to people than the respect and protection of individual liberty.<\/p>\n

The Ruse of \u201cPositive\u201d Freedoms<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, we have the kind of \u201cfreedoms\u201d propounded by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the freedoms now dubbed \u201cpositive.\u201d These freedoms do not get rid of those who would use you, interfere with you, invade your life, rob, kill, or assault you but promise, to the contrary, to take good care of you without your having to do much by invading others, by violating their individual liberties.<\/p>\n

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