Rose Wilder sought to highlight the difference it made in America that the individual was permitted freedom from government authority.
The Americans broke from the idea that dominated all over human history that they must depend on some overarching authority in government to grant them well being, and thus when good happens, we owe ever more to the powers that be.
The one idea that this is not the case, that human beings have within themselves the capacity to make their own way, she wrote, created the most glorious civilization in world history. Her passion was to help others see the cause: not authority but individual initiative and action.
She traced out this idea to provide sketches of history from the ancient world to the mid-20th century, believing that she had discovered the answer to what transformed the world from a dark, miserable, sickly, and dangerous place to one where humans thrive and create. She further condemned all political trends of her time from Fascism, to Communism, to the New Deal, and blasted war as the most destructive action of all…
I do understand what you are saying, which is why I supported same-sex marriage, abortion rights, &c.
But consider it thus: Should women be permitted to vote? Of course yes. Should they be required to vote whether they wish to or not, on pain of fines or imprisonment? A different story! The one is freedom. The other - is not.
You abhor abortion, consider it murder? Don't do it. But you may not outlaw whatever you don't like.
States should allow abortion. Some would; some would not. Vote with your feet, not by a Federal bayonet.
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Rose Wilder sought to highlight the difference it made in America that the individual was permitted freedom from government authority.
The Americans broke from the idea that dominated all over human history that they must depend on some overarching authority in government to grant them well being, and thus when good happens, we owe ever more to the powers that be.
The one idea that this is not the case, that human beings have within themselves the capacity to make their own way, she wrote, created the most glorious civilization in world history. Her passion was to help others see the cause: not authority but individual initiative and action.
She traced out this idea to provide sketches of history from the ancient world to the mid-20th century, believing that she had discovered the answer to what transformed the world from a dark, miserable, sickly, and dangerous place to one where humans thrive and create. She further condemned all political trends of her time from Fascism, to Communism, to the New Deal, and blasted war as the most destructive action of all…
I do understand what you are saying, which is why I supported same-sex marriage, abortion rights, &c.
But consider it thus: Should women be permitted to vote? Of course yes. Should they be required to vote whether they wish to or not, on pain of fines or imprisonment? A different story! The one is freedom. The other - is not.
You abhor abortion, consider it murder? Don't do it. But you may not outlaw whatever you don't like.
States should allow abortion. Some would; some would not. Vote with your feet, not by a Federal bayonet.