Monday, March 26, 2007
I WILL
I will value group interest over seif-interest.
I have the right to ask others to maintain our school values and image.
I understand that while I have the freedom of speech, I will not use it to hurt others.
I will not destroy public property as others have the freedom to use it.
MY THOUGHTS
What is freedom? Libertarians define freedom primarily as freedom from the might of the State. Socialists often define freedom in terms of freedom from want: freedom from hunger, freedom from sickness, freedom from the elements. Modern day hippies might talk about freedom from big corporations.
There is at least some truth in all these visions. And there is even some truth to the moralistic vision that conservatives invoke as they call for regulation on personal mores at the same time they call for less government elsewhere.
In the following pages, I want to develop a more complete vision of freedom that encompasses aspects of the libertarian, leftist and environmentalist visions. With this vision I hope to build a foundation for a consensus that can unite all freedom lovers so that we can form a majority coalition that trumps the special interests who are using the State to nibble away at our rights.
One very useful definition of freedom is the ownership of one body. To be a slave is to be unfree as one is owned by someone else. To be a serf is also to be unfree, though be a somewhat smaller amount. The owner of a serf does not have the right to sell.
Fortunately, to horrible institutions of slavery and serfdom are dead or dying in most of the world. But there are institutions that claim similar rights as the master or the feudal lord, though not always to the same degree.
People should have freedom but must not have complete freedomto have complete freedom that means you can kill people freely without getting trouble from the law.I think that parents should not give their children too much freedomif you give them too much they might get out of handbut freedom is important tooif a teenager don't even have the little right for freedomshe might hate her parents or think that her parents treat her like a childYou might think everyday you saw birdsand think that they must be very goodas they have freedom as they fly freely in the sky.