Liberty isn’t free.
I don’t mean this the way statists usually do.
What I mean is that I understand that liberty comes at a price. It’s dangerous.
You can stand for the right to own and carry guns and get killed by an evil loser with a gun.
You can oppose mandatory vaccination and die of a disease.
You might oppose prohibition and sobriety checkpoints and lose a family member to an impaired driver.
You can oppose mass surveillance and be the victim of a crime that could be solved with more spyware.
You can oppose censorship and get called rude names.
Statists will laugh, because they don't get it. They can't see past their ignorance.
Bad guys aren't violating you because of liberty. Liberty doesn't include the "right" to violate others, and it doesn't shield you from random bad things happening. Life and death happen. The Universe isn't fair.
The price of liberty is that if you're consistent, you might find yourself facing a situation that slavery might have made less likely.
So? Liberty is always worth the cost.
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