You may want to think this through some time again.
I can see how you want to support the freedom of a lunatic to burn houses, villages and their inhabitants. Yet why would you want to support such lunatic in his right doing this? There is no such right! In other words: There is no wrong being done right.
I once learned to distinguish between freedom and made-up-rights from falsely affirming Evelyn Beatrice Halls infamous quote, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." for a long time. Than I made up my mind. This has been a long way home.
Today I've unsubscribed me from this nonsense. And that's after pondering a long long long long time on Ayn Rands following lines in Atlas Shrugged, after investing to read the book from front cover to verso.
"He felt an anger too immense to identify except as a pressure within him: it was a desire to kill. The desire was not directed at the unknown thug who had sent a bullet through the boy's body, or at the looting bureaucrats who had hired the thug to do it, but at the boy's teachers who had delivered him, disarmed, to the thug's gun—at the soft, safe assassins of college classrooms who, incompetent to answer the queries of a quest for reason, took pleasure in crippling the young minds entrusted to their care"
So why should I support people taking pleasure in crippling unprepared minds? They have plenty unvoluntary support. Why should I voluntarily join those forces? Please tell me this!
Please think it through! It may take some brain-strain, but it's worth the freedom.
To your best
“Brain-strain.” I’ll pass on the (veiled?) snark. You’ve perfectly missed my argument here, I’m afraid. I am speaking of Steemit, and not of houses being burned down or young minds being crippled in universities (Atlas Shrugged is one of my all-time favorite books), by violence-based nation states.
I am adamantly opposed to Sander’s actions as delineated in this post. It may take some “brain strain” to understand, but just because I am opposed wholeheartedly to what he has done, doesn’t mean it violates anything regarding Steemit and the freedom of action afforded thereby to each individual user.
Thanks for reading.
You're doing the "Right" thing my retracting "Consent."
That witness should drop off the list entirely... IMHO.
Highly rEsteemed.
Oh no, don't be afraid, please. That's when I wrote brain-strain. And please don't take it as a snark. I'm in with what you are saying. I just wanted to make clear(er) the little detail of supporting ones opportunities or simply leaving them alone (and care for the good and fun stuff) - for them to have their freedoms anyway.
I have another good read. If you like Rand you may like Russell as well. ... And then there where none. [1] You may easily find a better copy in your favorite library, your (online) antiquarian bookshop or some audio project like Librivox. And I may expect you've read it already. It's a short read.
[1] http://www.simpleliberty.org/research/and_then_there_were_none.htm
fuck yes! Tell em, I'm a victim of bernie sander's banana as well!