Our founding fathers spoke of "liberty", Lincoln said the world had never arrived at a good definition of it. My generation assumed that the first stage of freedom--lack of restraint or coercion by government over personal choices and economic activity-- had to be backed up by the individual taking the responsibility for the outcomes and consequences through self-discipline and wise choices. But some people in every generation put all this aside, defining "freedom" as living by the impulse of the moment, doing as they damn well please regardless to the consequences to themselves or anybody else. Nearly everybody has sex and lives it up a little without making too big a fuss about it, but a few carry on these activities with so little responsiblity and restraint, ignoring all generally-accepted standards of behavior. Living purely by impulse and self-indulgence, they expect society in general to clean up their mess. Agree? Disagree? Speak up!
2006-07-12
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John (Thurb) McVey
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