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Before we speak about racism, justice, human rights, charity or values. We must realise that we are never morally justified in sacrificing someone’s freedom to achieve our ends. Doing so is the justification of tyrants and conquerors.
We live in a time where people have hijacked the word freedom and made it synonymous with safety, not being offended and privilege.
As aptly put by Thomas Jefferson, freedom also known as rightful liberty, is
“unobstructed action to our will within the limits drawn around us by the equal RIGHTS of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrants will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual”.
Freedom is not based on the assumption that everyone has equal ability or the same opportunities. Quite the contrary.
It's based on the universal truth that regardless of race, status, sex or creed, everyone has the same individual rights that should not be violated.
We will never have equal ability or equal opportunities. We are not even equal to ourselves on differing days. This however does not give one the right to take the fruit of someone’s labor in order to create a more equitable society for the greater good of the masses.
You do not have the right to steal the justly acquired wealth of the few to give to the many.
Your race does not entitle you to special treatment and consideration.
Your right to not be offended does not trump another’s right to speak their opinion of you.
The worst evils in the world are not committed by evil men, but rather by people lacking the wisdom to understand this truth and choose to plunder the freedom of the individual for the supposed good of the majority.
The same majority that a few hundred years ago would eagerly journey to the public centre to watch executions with the same gusto we eat popcorn while watching movies.
The same majority that would burn anyone accused of witchcraft at the stake and the same majority that tortured Galileo for going against the church’s teaching that the earth was the centre of the universe.
The majority or collective is not something to be revered but guarded against. Before service to any King or country, one must have service to the individual.
We Are all Kings for We Rule Ourselves
