Oct-08
20
Lest we forget…
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To live rationally in society, man requires only one thing from his fellow men: freedom of action. Freedom of action does not mean freedom to act by permission, which may be revoked at a dictator’s, or a democratic mob’s, whim, but the freedom to act as an absolute — by right.
Man requires rights to those actions necessary to support his own life, the most fundamental right being the right to life, from which all other rights, including the right to liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness, derive.
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You can be homeless and be alive.
You can be poor and be alive.
You can be hungry and be alive.
You can be without health care and be alive.
You can be without education and be alive.
You can be persecuted and be alive.
You can’t be aborted and be alive.
“Rights” are a moral principle that set the limits and open the door for man’s freedom to act (or not) socially. Rights are a concept reserved, by definition, only to rational beings capable of making rational judgments – man. The fact that man is a rational being is the fundamental source of all rights. Consequently, if we understand this basic notion of individual rights then the one and only action that cannot be permitted is the initiation of force against others.
If you are born into bondage, born as an indentured servant who must keep purchasing his life by serving the tribe, and never able to fully pay, are you really living? You’re certainly “alive,” but life has no value without freedom (live free or die). This was one of the profound and principle precepts and understandings of the Founders.
Our job, our fundamental responsibility, is to understanding that basic idea and do whatever is necessary to ensure such a world exists into which children are born. My only moral obligation to others then is to act rationally. To abrogate this responsibility is to sell our children into bondage so that we can endure with a little less pain – such an inversion is simply untenable, un-American, anti-human, irrational and unthinkable. Pretty well describes the left hand side of the isle and, sadly, too many on the right.
The basic issue then, the only thing that truly matters, are these singular questions: Is man free or not? Do I own my own mind or not? Is my life mine or not? These seem like self-evident questions, but understand that the rhetoric of the left and, particularly, Barak Obama is antithetical to this and fundamental rights of man.
In short, I wholeheartedly agree that the right to one’s own life is key – and the product of the labor of one’s own life must, by direct extension, be his and hers as well.