My life is better when your liberty is fully respected. So I want you to live in liberty to its fullest.
Liberty is the freedom to do all you have a right to do; everything which doesn't violate someone else's life, liberty, or property. Liberty is freedom tempered with responsibility.
Thomas Jefferson observed, "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others." He went on to say, "I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
None of these definitions includes the military's perverse use of the word "liberty" to mean "restricted action with permission and an expiration date". Those who crave control often employ this Orwellian tactic of using a word to mean its opposite.
I don't fear your liberty. Since liberty is the freedom to do everything you have a right to do, and nothing you have a right to do can violate me (or anyone else), I want you to exercise your rightful liberty every day of your life, all the time, without the fear of legislation enforcers and freelance creeps trying to stop or punish you. Then, I want the same for myself.
I wish more people felt as I do. The world would be a better place if that were the case.
If you are free to exercise your liberty, you'll probably be happier. You'll definitely be more mature and responsible. If not at first, soon. You'll learn. People can't learn to be responsible while being treated like children under the fist of an abusive parent.
If I were one of those people who wants to control others, who believes in the imaginary right to govern, I would feel differently. I could lie and say it's for your own good, for safety, or "for the children", but it would really be for my own ego or fear. I might not want you doing things you have a right to do, but which I wouldn't choose to do myself. Things which annoy me. I might believe it's OK to use government violence to stop you. It's not.
There's no legitimate excuse to obstruct another's liberty.
Liberty is your birthright as a human being. Embrace it and live it to make a better life for us all.
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