I've been trying to find a short, concise sentence to say that for the most part the right just wants to be left alone and the left wants to force everyone to do stuff, this is perfect, thanks!
This is something the right fundamentally misunderstands and the consequences are catastrophic.
Negative liberty doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
Positive liberty is the other side of the same coin. One logically cannot exist without the other.
This means paradoxically in order to be able to just “mind your own business” you have to proactively be all up in “everyone else’s business” and add cultural and legal obstacles that FORCE other people against bothering you.
People WILL force others to do what they want unless they are forced against forcing other people.
Ron DeSantis gets it. From his executive order regarding mask mandates and his bill extending stand your ground laws to protesters blocking traffic are steps in the right direction.
I’m on mobile at the moment, but the way I see it there is a very close relationship between negative/positive liberty and a negative/positive right. Let’s first define the terms:
Negative liberty = freedom from the actions others
Positive liberty = freedom to act as you want
Negative right = obliges inaction
Positive right = obliges action
You cannot really have one type of liberty without necessarily having the other in some form. Why is that?
If you want to be left alone (negative liberty), you need to use force — like the law — to restrict others (ergo respect your negative right) from acting against what you want to do (resulting in positive liberty). Now for an example:
e.g. The First Amendment. It allows you to be left alone (negative liberty) by using force — the law — to restrict the government (ergo respect your negative right) from acting against what you want to say (resulting in positive liberty).
There needs to be a baseline understanding of the negative rights of others in order to establish the bounds of the negative/positive liberties of others. We’re extremely lucky to have a lot of negative rights codified through the Bill of Rights!
Against all we have been taught, the men and women of the right are liberal and open minded; the people on the left are narrow-minded and intolerant (or taught to be).
Conservatives like to mind their own business. Libtards like to mind everyone else's business.
This was inevitable.
I've been trying to find a short, concise sentence to say that for the most part the right just wants to be left alone and the left wants to force everyone to do stuff, this is perfect, thanks!
This is something the right fundamentally misunderstands and the consequences are catastrophic.
Negative liberty doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
Positive liberty is the other side of the same coin. One logically cannot exist without the other.
This means paradoxically in order to be able to just “mind your own business” you have to proactively be all up in “everyone else’s business” and add cultural and legal obstacles that FORCE other people against bothering you.
People WILL force others to do what they want unless they are forced against forcing other people.
This needs to be rammed into the GOP’s thick head.
Ron DeSantis gets it. From his executive order regarding mask mandates and his bill extending stand your ground laws to protesters blocking traffic are steps in the right direction.
You should write a book about this. Seems like a subject most Conservatives avoid.
I’m on mobile at the moment, but the way I see it there is a very close relationship between negative/positive liberty and a negative/positive right. Let’s first define the terms:
Negative liberty = freedom from the actions others
Positive liberty = freedom to act as you want
Negative right = obliges inaction
Positive right = obliges action
You cannot really have one type of liberty without necessarily having the other in some form. Why is that?
If you want to be left alone (negative liberty), you need to use force — like the law — to restrict others (ergo respect your negative right) from acting against what you want to do (resulting in positive liberty). Now for an example:
e.g. The First Amendment. It allows you to be left alone (negative liberty) by using force — the law — to restrict the government (ergo respect your negative right) from acting against what you want to say (resulting in positive liberty).
There needs to be a baseline understanding of the negative rights of others in order to establish the bounds of the negative/positive liberties of others. We’re extremely lucky to have a lot of negative rights codified through the Bill of Rights!
Against all we have been taught, the men and women of the right are liberal and open minded; the people on the left are narrow-minded and intolerant (or taught to be).
Liberal: broad-minded, nonconventional, open-minded.
Words Related to open-minded
Synonyms: impartial, neutral, objective, unbiased, unprejudiced, easygoing, nonjudgmental, tolerant, calm
Antonyms: biased, narrow, one-sided, partial, partisan, prejudiced, bigoted, intolerant
Also, Liberals are great at spending other people's money.
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