[MD] A bright note

[blue-jay maple]

Platt:
> All:
> Elections in Europe show a continued shift to the political right -- an
> encouraging result to all who seek Dynamic freedom from statist welfare
> programs. Europeans are beginning to feel like Pirsig when he wrote,
> "God, I don't want to have any more enthusiasm for big programs full of
> social planning for big masses of people that leave individual Quality
> out." In other words, the state should reject SOM "systems thinking" and
> instead concentrate on each individual's uniqueness, encouraging her to
> be all she can be. A good start would be to break up the government's
> monopoly on education by permitting school vouchers.

Nick:
Liberty is just.  It provides for the uniqueness of each individual to flourish.  In 
a society that tries to minimize conflict individuals live a quality life.

Platt:
> Some of the reactions to Nick's ideas here show how close-minded
> certain contributors can be. In fact, Victorian moral certainty has nothing
> on today's left-wing "progressives" whose answer to every social
> problem is more regulations, higher taxes and bigger government along
> with sanctioning such biological values as anything-goes-marriages,
> legalized drugs and public nudity.

Nick:
Right government needs to stay out of those programs.  They are arbritrary and 
deal with individual value preferences and not with any universal guiding principle 
that is just (justice).  People don't need the government to tell them go and be nude 
in public.  If a private beach wants it, then so be it.  It's their property.

Platt:
> Fortunately in Europe such slouching to Gomorrah has been temporarily
> abated. The benefits of socialism have been proved less than
> advertised, which comes as no surprise to anyone familiar with human
> history.

Nick:
I converse with many Europeans from different countries and it is buckling 
their system with such extreme overhead costs.  There's been lost of 
peaceful protests going on that haven't been in the news.  I'm not talking 
about the G8 summits and stuff.  Most people heard about those.  I'm 
talking about farmers peacefully protesting due to their farms getting suffocated 
by the lack of liberty, thus, flourishing in Europe is not happening that much.  
Some of these peaceful protests, like with these old farmers have been opposed 
with by the statist police with physical coercion.  It's sad.  People just need to be 
left alone if they are innocent.  Let people live their life in peace, and grow old 
with grandchildren.

Nick

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