We can now see through phrases
like individual liberty, government regulation, and protecting «life» to the cruelty, bigotry, and hypocrisy at their agenda's core.
Not exact matches
you can also fill the airwaves of all these surrounding nations with disruptive ideas / propaganda
like freedom of the press,
individual liberty, economic opportunity, etc. — dangerous ideas to the surrounding kleptocracies / oligarchies.
This narrative seems plausible to many, because we have been deeply shaped and trained to associate the word «
liberty» with the freedom of
individuals «to pursue their own ends»» requiring, among other things, the liberation of recreational sex from any consequences» and not the rights, privileges, immunities and
liberties of groups, societies, associations, even a corpus mysticum
like the Church.
Since your article addresses legal matters, I would
like to respond as an attorney with more than thirty years experience and a commitment» untarnished by pecuniary baggage» to the First Amendment and the preservation of
individual liberty and our pluralistic society.
It is probably fair to say that libertarianism is a term less familiar to British political culture than to that of the United States, but British conservatives (including members of the Conservative party) often
like to claim the mantle of liberalism and
individual liberty, usually relating these ideas to the promotion of free enterprise, reduced state intervention in the economy and
individual responsibility.
It allows
individuals and families to «vote with their feet» — to move to jurisdictions that they
like, where the authorities don't act counter to their
liberties and preferences.
There are several «Heinlein themes» that I
like and want to explore:
Individual liberty and self - reliance, the obligation
individuals owe to their societies (and vice versa), the influence of organized religion on society - and the tendency of society to repress nonconformist thought.
And apropos of dbostrom # 361, illuminating the deep fear of loss of
individual freedom that drives Lindzen, Fred Singer, and so many others: note that in practice this means the freedom to add another billion people every 15 years, to dig up anything we possibly can and turn it into stuff we
like to consume, and to protect multinational corporations from interference in their pursuit of life,
liberty, and happiness.
True, true, instead of the economic transformation for which Minister Al Gore opines — a unified Earth under a centralized European - style secular socialist government, as he blames the practice of capitalism by a wasteful and over-consuming free people as the cause of, climate change and extreme poverty and disease — the success of America should be a source of pride hope and an example to be emulated: Gore should have,
like George Bush, supported with America with his whole heart on behalf of those everywhere who long for
individual liberty.
Its pretty clear they want alarmist posts and that the site is leftish in orientation (you just have to look at the issues you can check off that interest you — lots of things
like «societal entrepreneurship» but nothing on
individual liberty or checks on government power).
But the converse may also be true: as more things are done for the public good,
like Saving the Planet, the greater the erosion of
individual liberty, and the more authoritarian the state becomes in enforcing the social order.
In this episode of the Modern Law Library, professor Adam Winkler, author of We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights, shares what he learned from his investigation into how corporations have achieved constitutional protections ranging from the right to sue and be sued, to
individual rights
like religious
liberty protections and free speech.
It is crucial for
individual liberty that the Court have more members
like Justice Thomas.»