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More About Lights
On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 07:48:28 -0500, AMuzi wrote:
---A whole bunch deleted --- No one analyzed this subject better than the genius Ludwig von Mises: “Opium and morphine are certainly dangerous, habit-forming drugs. But once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments... Why limit the government’s benevolent providence to the protection of the individual’s body only?” Mises asks. “Is not the harm a man can inflict on his mind and soul even more disastrous than any bodily evils? Why not prevent him from reading bad books and seeing bad plays, from looking at bad paintings and statues and from hearing bad music?” and further: “He who wants to reform his countrymen must take recourse to persuasion. This alone is the democratic way of bringing about changes. If a man fails in his endeavors to convince other people of the soundness of his ideas,” Mises concludes, “he should blame his own disabilities. He should not ask for a law, that is, for compulsion and coercion by the police.” Which of course brings us right down to 2017. This insane urge to protect the ignorant, or just stupid, from their own folly seems to be a legacy of the "Middle East" religions and the is largely missing from the "Far East" religions, and would seem to fly in the face of the Darwin theory, which might be termed "survival of the fittest". But something I've always wondered about. We have all these groups striving to protect the poor ignorant purchaser from those spiteful manufacturers who fail to tell them that "not tightening this nut may cause the wheel to fall off". Why isn't there a law to protect the poor maligned manufacturer from the totally inept users who, for example, order a cup of hot coffee and than proceed to spill it in their own lap and than argue that it was the vendor's fault that they got burned. Or to use a bit more recent theory, "It is the bank's fault that I am in debt since if they hadn't loaned me the money I couldn't have spent it" :-) -- Cheers, John B. |
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