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December 21, 2015
Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
If the liberty of myself or my class or nation depends on the misery of a number of other human beings, the system which promotes this is unjust and immoral.But if I curtail or lose my freedom, in order to lessen the shame of such inequality, and do not thereby materially increase the individual liberty of others, an absolute loss of liberty occurs. This may be compensated for by a gain in justice or in happiness or peace, but the loss remains, and it is a confusion of values to say that although my ‘liberal’ individual freedom may go by the board, some other kind of freedom—social or economic—is increased. - - Isaiah Berlin,
Posted by gerardvanderleun at December 21, 2015 12:41 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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So much THIS in that.
Posted by: Joan of Argghh! ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://americandigest.org/sidelines/nav-commenters.gif)
at December 21, 2015 5:49 PM
Whoever wrote that is a retarded narcissist, and wrong.
No I didn't read it, just what Gerard posted was more than enough....
Posted by: ghostsniper at December 21, 2015 6:56 PM
Berlin was a neo-con before that term was coined. That is a person who is horrified by the result of his intellectual class--unlike so many others in his class--but is unwilling to entirely embrace the creed which produced liberty. A neo-con is a partial-con.
FREDERIC BASTIAT
Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it.
Posted by: james wilson at December 22, 2015 10:32 AM