tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13126875.post49794878863168917..comments2008-05-01T13:23:01.512-04:00Comments on HaJollyHa: Quote of the DayRaindearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07900969158515093673noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13126875.post-64343534337310697652008-01-28T23:45:00.000-05:002008-01-28T23:45:00.000-05:00I heartily agree; thank you for the response.I heartily agree; thank you for the response.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13126875.post-83037627990855612862008-01-28T10:39:00.000-05:002008-01-28T10:39:00.000-05:00Crusader88,I am curious to read more from Benson t...Crusader88,<BR/><BR/>I am curious to read more from Benson too. Honestly, I would need that to say for sure, but his language is pretty strong and I feel confident that he was advocating some degree of censorship and moral regulation. The real question at stake here is the purpose of government. Is it to preserve order in society so that men can achieve and enjoy economic prosperity, or does Raindearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07900969158515093673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13126875.post-42896265857613978682008-01-26T21:48:00.000-05:002008-01-26T21:48:00.000-05:00I too think it's a very good quote. It reminds me ...I too think it's a very good quote. It reminds me of what an annoying blogger asked me yesterday: how can one support the restoration of Catholic monarchies and be a libertarian? Besides that he was wrong in assuming that I am a doctrinaire libertarian [I am not an ideologue], he seemed to have missed the point: western governments today forbid innocuous things to us (smoking in restaurants, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13126875.post-43158560064352504142008-01-25T17:37:00.000-05:002008-01-25T17:37:00.000-05:00Good point! Truth and virtue take hold of the hea...Good point! Truth and virtue take hold of the heart more quickly when one not only studies them in books or learns of them through rules, but observes them nobly at work as well. It would be very untrue to say, however, that the rules entirely lose their value when the ruler fails to follow them. The human intellect may, albeit with difficulty, see beyond human frailty to ontological basis forRaindearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07900969158515093673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13126875.post-59817155853858513372008-01-25T16:46:00.000-05:002008-01-25T16:46:00.000-05:00That is a very thoughtful quote, though one which ...That is a very thoughtful quote, though one which certainly chafes against the shallow and misguided understanding of freedom that is so prevalent today--something a kin freedom as a state of being where there are no moral expectations whatsoever. Especially those ideas like control, enforcement, and compulsion. But we need them don't we? Left to our own devices--what with darkened minds, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com