Man Does Not Have To Be Superman To Be Free
By gewcew23
@gewcew23 (8007)
United States
November 26, 2008 3:05pm CST
All man has to do is stay bigger, stronger and faster than government.
In The Ethics of Liberty, Murray Rothbard writes in a section titled “A Crusoe Social Philosophy” Critics have charged that this freedom is illusory because man is bound by natural laws. The power to leap across the ocean is not given to man. However, man’s ingenuity has led him to search for and find ways to travel across the ocean by boat or submarine. The power to fly is also not given (naturally) to man. Yet man has found ways to achieve flight according to natural laws, which, when heeded, have allowed man to fly in any number of ways, e.g., hang-glide, helicopter, airplane, parachute. The power to lift extremely heavy objects is also not found in man’s (bodily) abilities. Man has learned natural laws to design mechanisms that can lift objects that weigh over a thousand times what man could lift alone. Everything that I have just described was away that man using his on abilities was able to better natural law yet none of the activities was created by government. Look it up the first airplane was invented by private citizens, the first submarine, so on and so on.
Man might not be Superman but when government stays out of the way of private citizens great things can be accomplished.
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@lilwonders456 (8214)
• United States
27 Nov 08
I completely agree. Government seems to hinder progress and human invention. Left to our own devices we are perfectly capable of taking care of ourselves.
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@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
27 Nov 08
Take a look at the clean up effort in New Orleans. The people down there cannot rebuild without cutting threw so much red tape it is not worth it. Imagine if all the red tape went away, I bet New Orleans would be rebuilt in a couple of month and save the taxpayers a lot of money.
@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
27 Nov 08
That is also true when the government stays out of business and the marketplace.
Let us not forget that it was government interference that got us in this mess to begin with.
If the government hadn't mandated that loans be given to people who were not creditworthy to begin with, then there would have been no housing bubble or a subprime crisis, and there would have been no financial meltdown.
Let us also not forget that it was the democrats who created this mess, and a moron named Barney Frank who assured Congress that Fannie and Freddie were in no danger.
Let us also not forget that both Bush and McCain each tried to prevent this mess by introducing regulation and oversight on those two failed entities, and were rebuffed by the democrats at every turn.
Let us also not forget that 0bama played a role in this debacle as well by suing the banks on behalf of ACORN when they would not give the loans to people who were not creditworthy, and the lawsuits were charging the banks with racism, and ethnic redlining.
Yet 0bama has the unmitigated gall to blame Bush and 8 years of failed economic policies, when he knows that it is a lie.
0bma has told a great many lies, and covered up a great many things... and he has not even been elected yet. The Electoral College has not yet met.
I expect that if he does mange to take office, we shall see a great many more lies and coverups.
He talks of change, but the faces are mighty familiar.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
27 Nov 08
It seems to make sense. The only way the government is to make it sure that the people working get a decent wage for their work so that they can afford to invent these things. Poor people cannot afford to take time off of work to invent things, wealthier people can. But if the government raises its taxes, then no one will have enough money to invent anything new. I bet once they invented income tax, the ability of man to invent things went down.
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