"Freedom means that you accept responsibility for your own wants and needs, and the minute you ask anyone else, be it society, or government, to provide for your wants and needs, you have given up your freedom. You are not free if you depend upon someone else to provide you with the things you rely upon for your survival. Alexis de Tocqueville put it this way, “It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.”
It is your right to live your life as you choose, so long as you do not impose upon, nor restrict the rights and liberty of anyone else. That is rightful liberty. Nothing I ask of society requires that anyone surrender any of their income, or their unalienable rights; I only ask to be left alone. You might not like the fact that I may choose to walk around with a gun strapped to my hip, but it is my right to do so for my protection. Yet YOUR government has made it a crime for me to do so unless I have first obtained permission from them to do so.
Those who believe that we must work within the system, petition government for a redress of grievances so that these laws are repealed, don’t understand the nature of their rights. As Larkin Rose stated, “The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed, regardless of the response.
To beg for the blessing of “authority” is to accept that the choice is the master’s alone to make, which means that the person is already, by definition, a slave.”
We are not free, we are in the mess we are today, because people believe in the omnipotence of the system; that it is their duty to obey the laws; support those who enforce them, and the system that spews them out like so much raw sewage." @Neal Ross
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