by Ray Newman, radio and television commentator, attorney, educator, author

Monday, July 1, 2013

STOP SALUTING GENERAL WELFARE

What confounds me is why it isn't as obvious to everyone as it is to me.

All questions we humans have are ultimately to be answered by Nature...man's nature and the nature of the world in which he lives.What is good for us or bad for us to do, what is pro life or anti life, is determined by Nature...nothing else.

When the Founders talked about freedom..."rights"  they called it...they manifested their understanding of the singular significance of the point I am making  when they said that the source of our freedom, our right to live our lives as we choose, was given to us by our Creator.  In other words, not given to us by other men, nor by society, nor by government...but by our very nature as humans.  That idea was further strengthened when the Founders characterized our rights as "inalienable".   Not retractable, not subject to limitation or abridgement nor temporary suspension...neither God nor Nature would take kindly to that...bur cast in stone forever and ever and ever.

So what is it I don't understand, what is it that confuses me?  How virtually EVERYONE thinks the passage of laws curtailing our freedom is justified if the curtailment is warranted by the perceived general welfare of society.  With convoluted reasoning that betrays a lack of appreciation of the source of freedom, they think nothing of limiting, restraining, in one way or a thousand ways, how I can choose to live my life.  More appropriately said: they think not.

There is  NOTHING...no law, no program, no so-called benefit...that could possibly enhance the general welfare of society if it entails the denial of my freedom...that is,  my nature.

Nothing, nil, nada, naught.

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