Friday, August 27, 2021

Personal freedom

I was thinking about this notion of "personal freedom" and making vaccines and mask mandates about individual liberties, rather than the common good.

It's ironic when you think about how the framers of the constitution set it up as a collective good and it even starts with the line "we the people…" As opposed to "hey it's all about me"

You have rights and privileges, but must act for the common good. To use a famous kennedy phrase "ask not what your country can do for, but what you can do for your country" is spot on in today's world.

And what of the parallel to personal liberty known as "personal accountability?" When you talk about your freedoms, who are you accountable to? Yourself? Your family? Your friends? Your community? The nation on the whole?

Get over yourself and do what's in the best interest of our nation. One whose constitution you *think* you know and understand. But in our experiment, you surely can't appreciate.

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