Walk For Liberty Day 185 - Just Because You’re Opposed To Something, Doesn’t Mean You Need To Think Government Should Ban It
November 8th 2008, day 185 / Pizza guarantee / Flags / Entering political delineation of Pennsylvania / Company with asinine policy about firing you if you’re late too many times instead of just based on job performance / Companies should be free to have ridiculous policies, though / Free market will ultimately decide if a company makes good decisions or not / Interesting position of not liking the policy but believing they are free to have it? / People believing that if they’re against something, that government should ban it, or if they’re for it, that govt should subsidize it / Separating your opinion on something from whether govt should do something about it / Not being against something because you fear people will interpret it as that you think govt should ban it / Do liberty oriented people have a duty to remain publicly neutral on things because of that? / Hiding my opinion of smoking because of smoking bans / Exposing the ridiculousness of that approach / It could bolster your position if people see you’re against it, yet don’t think that govt should ban it / Pervasiveness of people linking their personal opinions to govt action / Refusing to answer biased public opinion polls / Don’t shy away from giving your opinion on something; just clarify that regardless of your opinion, you don’t think govt should do anything about it / 21.29 miles for liberty / http://amazon.walkforliberty.com / When Greenhouses Go Wild / Cool Bus
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November 14th, 2008 at 6:13 am
We also face this problem if we care about environmental or animal issues. You can love whales and trees, but if you give to almost any related nonprofit, your money goes for lobbying.
December 7th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Wow, personal desires are automatically assumed to be a guideline for government action. I never realized that but it’s so obvious now that you point it out.