Today's editorial by David
Brooks in the New York Times describes people as much more at liberty to follow their desires unhampered by social
and religious convention and yet with the gay marriage movement it
appears that some now are willing to reverse course and constrain their freedom
with fidelity and responsibility. I think David has hit on the
prejudice that Libertarians are for a free for all chaos of
individuals reaching as far they can go in expressing their freedom
but from which not much could be depended upon for the long term.
I
believe that the Amish, thank you PBS American Masters, are a very
good representation of liberty despite the initial belief to the
contrary. They are a religious sect practicing a freedom that is
restrained and communal, but taken as a whole completely detached
from government and expressing a freedom more complete than many who
think they are free could hope for and on the other side more faithful, responsible and civil than any on
the authoritarian side could hope to be.
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