honorentheos wrote:canpakes wrote:Individual freedom shouldn’t be used as an excuse for any behavior that one wants to exhibit. It implies a responsibility to ourselves and community to act with deliberation, maturity, and for consideration of those around us as well.
Seriously, “no man is an island” shouldn’t need to be reiterated this often.
You may need to be more specific in addressing the context for ceebs' comment. He imagines that if government interference were removed, all judgements would be made based on merit. It dismisses the idea that bias is real and has consequences ranging from insignificant to down right life-changing in devastating ways. There is a Westphalian optimism that stems out of one's dare-I-say-privileged experience extended onto everyone else without reflection.
Yes, it would be great if we were always guided by our better angels. But that isn’t human nature, and we have the entirety of history to use as demonstration for mankind’s general proclivity to be unkind and unjust to each other, many times with tragic and wide-ranging results.
But, I’m sure that we’re all going to get all of that right this time.
; )