Maggie's Farm

Equality is a difficult subject to discuss, because it makes the assumption that "equality" exists as a concept; which it does not. There is no such thing as equality because the concept contains too many potential elements to define. Does it mean equal happiness? Or equal money? Or equal freedom? It can mean any of those things; therefore it's meaningless.

It would be much better to offer people liberty; and leave it at that. But even that term doesn't mean equal freedom under the law. It means reasonable freedom; depending on who you are; and where you come from. The amount of liberty to which any person is entitled is dependent upon where he was born, the circumstances of his birth, and his physical and intellectual capacity. For example, a recent immigrant would naturally be granted less liberty than someone who was born in this country. And a child born out of wedlock would be entitled to less liberty than a child born to married parents.

Liberty is contingent upon intellectual fitness, and social legitimacy; neither of which black people have. But black women don't like these restrictions, so they have renamed political liberty as "civil rights." In reality, there is no such thing as civil rights. Black people try to argue that they are not subject to the rules of conduct which apply to everyone else. They can spread HIV, have children out of wedlock, commit violent crime, sell drugs; and yet still claim to be socially legitimate. But that's simply not true. Black people are illegitimate; and also intellectually inferior. For these reasons, they shouldn't even exist.

But blacks claim that they are entitled to rights and privileges that don't match public opinion because civil rights are not contingent upon the attitudes of other people. Civil Rights, they claim, come directly from God. But of course that's not true. If put to a public vote, civil rights would disappear tommorow: nobody would give black people a dime. The point here being that the only source of moral authority is man's opinion. Not some government edict. But governments try to pretend that they are moral agents, so they have the right to interfere in people's lives, and to levy taxes for "social engineering." Nothing could be farther from the truth.

The only job of the government is to grant some degree of liberty. Success comes from one's fellow man.

Blick, I don't think that I'm prejudiced. My opinion is based on reality. But I'm glad that you mentioned "Mob Rule." That term is a misnomer, if ever I've heard one. Some people also call it "The tyranny of the majority."

Listen: Majority rule is how democracy works. People who claim that the government must intervene to protect the rights of minorities are anti-democratic. I'll give you an example. When Obama was elected President, there was another issue on the ballot: Homosexual Marriage. The people of California voted against homosexual marriage by a wide margin. But the referendum was overturned by a Judge, who claimed that he was "protecting the rights of a minority."

In my opinion, issues should be decided by referendum.
Public opinion is the source of law: not the government.
Do you think that people would vote for reparations?