Yeah, read my post quoting John Stuart Mill (he was a Brit, but wrote a lot about liberty). Looks like you might have missed it.
Yes, it might have been far better for Mr. dead dumb fuck if he was wearing a bucket.
In retrospect, there's a lot of things I could have done in life that would have been better for me. If you tried to force them on me, however, I'd probably have punched you in the fucking throat...and deservedly so.
Paternalism is the polar opposite of what this country was founded for. It's amazing how much of what people from hundreds of years ago had to say about freedom still applies today.
Ben Franklin's insights, for instance, apply verbatim today, in almost all cases.
What's that saying again regarding those who forget the past?
(kidding...I didn't forget)
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