This morning as I was responding to some Steemit comments on my blog, I came across a common argument, often made by statists and libertarians alike.
The argument goes like this:
"Of course X is immoral, but society is not ready to be without government now, so we'll have to wait."
The problem with this argument is obvious. What is immoral is immoral, and telling another individual that they must "wait until it is practical," or until "society is ready," to exercise their individual freedoms is a gross oversight of the obvious: individual self-ownership is about individual natural rights, and not collectivist comfort or societal "practicality."
The argument that we must wait until everyone is ready to be free, to be free, is tantamount to saying, hundreds of years ago during the times of black slavery: Oh yes, slavery is wrong! We should end it just as soon as we figure out who will pick the cotton!
This is, of course, patently ridiculous. Morality is primary and foundational. "Practicality" and "the crops" be damned, owning another human is wrong. See?
The practical end can sort itself out. The truth is that no human has any sort of right to tell me I must wait to be free.
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~KafkA
Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as DLive and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)
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