| | What exactly is a society supposed to be like to be suitable to human life as such? This is not about some special form of human life such as athletics, commerce, academics or religious. It is about human community life, period. ... So, then, what is it that a proper human community, fit for inhabitation of flourishing by human beings just as human beings, should be like? And here those who champion individual rights to life, liberty and property maintain that such a society may never, for any purpose, involve any coercive actions and policies.
Of course, "those who champion individual rights to life, liberty and property," do maintain that a proper human society may, "never, for any purpose, initiate any coercive actions and policies," but those who tell you, "if you don't like it, go somewhere else," are not those who champion such things.
They, like most citizens of the semi-free nations, believe rights are entitlements, that simply because they were born, they, "have a right to," certain things and that governments are instituted to ensure they get their rights.
The problem is, there are more of that kind of citizen than "those who champion individual rights to life, liberty and property," and there always will be.
But here is a dilemma. Why do we champion individual liberty to think, and choose, and be responsible for our own lives? Because we know that is a requirement of human life to live, to succeed, and to enjoy one's life. Individual liberty is as much a necessity of human life as bread.
So, we institute government to ensure we have this necessity of human life called liberty. Those who do no agree with us are going to say, "what's the difference between bread and liberty?" If liberty ought to be guaranteed to everyone, because it is a necessity of human life, why should not food, or clothing, or any other necessity of human life be guaranteed?
Good question, and the best answer we can provide is, because without liberty none of the other things can be provided by anyone. But the bigger question is, can government provide anything, even liberty? The answer is, government cannot, and the present state of all countries where the best effort was made to secure liberty that way is the proof; and the reason is, because there are always more of the other kind of citizen, the kind that doesn't give rap about freedom as long as they are guaranteed bread.
So what is the freedom lover to do. Like everything else in life, freedom must be secured by the individual, because there is no moral right to what one has not produced, earned, or secured by their own effort and choice, not even liberty.
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