The Freeway To Serfdom

The Freeway to Serfdom

"One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license." - P.J. O'Rourke

Thursday, April 28, 2005

Good Efforts

While I continue to drag my ass back to regular posting, there are plenty of superb efforts out there worthy of attention.

Balko:

"I'm still befuddled as to why this is even an issue. Do people on the pro-choice side really believe a pharmacist should be forced by the government to dispense drugs he finds morally objectionable? Do pro-life people really believe a drug store that wishes to dispense such drugs should be forced by the government to continue to employ a pharmacist who won't comply with the store's policy?"

Lopez:

"What does someone say when they claim that the Constitution doesn’t authorize income taxes, and therefore the IRS is in the wrong for collecting them? They’re saying that if the Constitution in fact authorized income taxes, then you’d be in the wrong for not paying them. To put it more plainly, if the Constitution authorized you to beat the shit out of Mexicans, would that make it right?

Yes, or no?

Because those are the only two choices on the table, here: either government law is in fact the arbiter of right and wrong, or it is not. If it is, then the government of the United States can rightfully pack up every person it wants to into cattle cars and stuff them into the ovens – as long as the paperwork is correct. If government law isn’t the arbiter of right and wrong, then the arguments about what “the law” purports to authorize are meaningless for determining what ought to be done."

Nikoley:

"In short, the goodness of the individual is all that matters, and really, that's assuming I give any credence to borders, which I generally don't. If you want to abstract out the essentials of that which is in essence America, it's most certainly not the landmass. It's an idea--more precisely, an ideal--and it includes anyone--individuals anywhere--of the American mind.

That's why this is just pure crap (read my comments).

Those conservatives or libertarians who get it right on the gun control issue (morally, practically, or both) ought to take one second to consider the consistency of the underlying principles of their arguments when they spew forth about "illegal" immigration. There's not an ounce of difference in the argument on any level."

Damn. It's not like I've much to add here.

Solid work, lads - all around.

# 7:29 AM

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