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Wednesday, April 4, 2007 - 7:52amSanction this postReply
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This is mostly preaching to the choir here on RoR, but if you know people who insist we ought to have a "right" to education, or health care, this essay might be a gentle way to get them to understand what that really means is that it is a right to enslave another person.

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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 11:15pmSanction this postReply
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Michael,

Thanks for the article.  Your line "everyone ought to have one" really made a bright distinction between the two uses.

I meant to comment on this a couple days ago, but got distracted.  It's interesting to have this article in the context of some of the discussions of free will that have been happening lately, as that's another place where the term has so many different meanings.

And while it may seem like preaching to the choir, I'm always appreciative of a different way of approaching problems.  Thanks!


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Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 7:13amSanction this postReply
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Superb concise easily understood and well written article!

This gem popped up from the random article function on the home page.
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Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 8:01amSanction this postReply
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Jules:

This is a great article. One point that stood out for me:

Political Freedom – Freedom from being forced to do something against your will by someone else.

This has been warped in our universities by radical intellectuals to include

"Freedom to advocate the use of force to do something against other's will by someone else, as long as that someone else believes it is for a really good cause, such as, implementation of their world view."

Said in a simpler way "Political Freedom includes the right to destroy Political Freedom."

Or its corollary: "Complete academic freedom includes the right to destroy complete academic freedom."

And finally, "A political context that is supportive of freedom includes support for the freedom to destroy freedom."


With the above perversion of the word 'freedom' as 'complete anarchy,' we would freely tolerate cancer advocates -- radical folks promoting the broad, deliberate delivery of 'cancer' to 'healthy patients' in the context of 'health,' as a consequence of complete academic freedom, in exactly the same way that we freely tolerate the advocates of Marxism/Communism/Socialism/Statism/Social Scientology who promote the broad, deliberate delivery of 'tribal totalitarianism' to 'free people' at universities in the context of 'freedom.'

regards,
Fred

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