Fundamentally, it should all be rather simple. We ALL want to be able to have the option to; get ahead, not have our rights trampled on, live well and die with dignity.
The one thing that should always be kept in mind is:
at the expense of another."
One gender should not be getting ahead in areas of learning over another gender. One race should not be trampling over another at their expense. One religion should not be granted more options than another.
The point is not to just be even either.
It's to be better than things are right now.
Tearing things down isn't better than buildings things up.
Albert Jay Nock the underrated author of, "Our Enemy, the State," once noted that the primary intention of the state is "to enable the economic exploitation of one class by another.
ReplyDeleteSounds like my family. I love throwing this quote at them: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually,run out of other people’s money.” – Margaret Thatcher
ReplyDeleteGerald Ford (14 July 1913 – 26 December 2006) , the 38th President of the United States.
ReplyDelete"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.