Our highest values.

I’m particularly done with people who explain that our rights and our values only apply to government and that it’s okay when it’s private citizens who try to punish their neighbors and family members for exercising those rights.

I’m legitimately libertarian-ish and yes, I believe that all relationships should be voluntary. BUT!

Free speech and liberty are an *ethos* that is not limited to government. Our rights can’t be limited to government and still exist as protections or even concepts.

People are openly calling for the government to make laws against all sorts of speech they don’t like or opinions they view as bad for society. (I read my Dem Senator’s facebook.) Why do they think it’s okay for government to have laws to silence the bad people? Because they don’t *personally* value free speech or liberty AT ALL.

The private and public on this can’t be divided because all that’s necessary to violate what ought to be our principles is for government to look the other way while the violations are outsourced to the mob.

EXACTLY what Gina’s meme-share was talking about. Nazi Germany didn’t start with government rounding people up, the road to that horror started with neighbors or family turning on people, stopping them from working or taking care of their family or even turning them into the state. And evil government could never have rounded people up had the private sector not cooperated fully.

The woke sin-seekers today make this delegated mob action their purpose in life and they don’t like if someone doesn’t praise them for their virtue.

How can something that is contrary to our most important formal statement of values be bad when the government does it but virtuous when off-loaded to the private sector?

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