Free Market News Network
by Tibor R. Machan

09/13/05

Ever since the idea of individual liberty has achieved some measure of credibility over the world, those who would be unseated by its limited triumph had to find some way to discredit it or trump it somehow. One way was to re-christen servitude, to make it appear like an even more important kind of liberty than what individual liberty, properly understood, amounts to. When a human being is free in the most important, political sense, he or she is sovereign. This means he or she governs his or her own life -- others must refrain from intruding on this life, plain and simple. That life may be fortunate or not, rich or not, beautiful or not, and many other things or not, but what matters is that that life is no one else's to mess with. One gets to run it, no one else does...

http://www.freemarketnews.com/pview/5834/2598/html/index.php


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp