Liberty/Libertine

in #liberty8 years ago (edited)

Both proponents and opponents of liberty will confuse it (liberty) with the concept of the libertine.

While one requires self control, self governance, and personal responsibility the other seeks to cast off such things in exchange for self gratification, nihilism and ultimately slavery to ones own vices.

The lack of ability or desire to govern oneself is a near guarantee that some busy body or control freak will step in to fill the vacuum.

Live free.

Selah

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This is a problem with some of the old guard liberals. They were basically against conservatism because they wanted to do drugs and have sex without anyone looking down on them.

Which is fine, if that's what they want to do, but since it was really the "moral majority" and not conservatives who looked down on them, everyone was arguing with the wrong people about the wrong things. Moral majority folks were arguing with libertine people about what controls they wanted put on who, and the actual freedom-conservatives and liberty-liberals were shoved to the back of the bus.

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