I've been Thinking

[Exsubmariner]

You are going to be appalled. If you do not want to be appalled, stop reading now.

I have been thinking. I have put myself in harms way in my life for things I believe in. Before I resolved to put myself in harms way, I had to reconcile what I would be willing to die for. Putting myself in jeapordy was an act of freedom. I did it of my own free will under no duress or coersion. Basically, I resolved that I would be willing to die in an attempt to kill someone whose goal it was to deprive me of my freedom. If I could not kill someone in the process of dying to preserve my freedom, I would be unwilling to die and probably choose a path that would allow me to live so that I might attempt to kill someone denying me my freedom at a later time. That pretty much sums up what I would be willing to die for.

Killing someone else is another matter. It is much easier. What would I be willing to kill for? I basically come up with the tenents of English law. Being I would kill to preserve the life of myself, someone else, my property, someone elses property, or my country. By necessity that would mean someone who was jeapordizing life, property, or country.

Every other Sapiens Sapiens on the planet, to me, then became a human being worth defending and protecting. Each one having the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, BTW, are in my view only guaranteed by a free market.

Now, what makes a human being? This becomes a sticky point. I can only define it one way. An inborn desire to be free. My life is about freedom. My entire existance can be framed in the motif of seeking greater freedom. I cannot concieve of another human being on the face of the Earth who would seek a life leading to less freedom. To me, the inborn desire to make choices for yourself and seek, as much as you can, to determine your own fate ecompasses everything I can concieve as the human spirit. The freedom to worship what you want, [censored] who you want, marry who you want, be friends with who you want, buy what you want, do business as you want, think what you want, and most importantly learn what you want, define, for me, a human being.

What about a human being who seeks less freedom? Is that possible? What is the point of a life in which all the decisions are made for you? What is enriched by that life? What is learned in that life? What is the value of that life? All I can answer is nothing. Does that mean that anyone who actively seeks to have less freedom is less than human?

I think it was Jefferson of Franklin who said "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither."

What does it mean? Does it mean that our great nemesis in this era, instead of godless communists, but devaut Sharia practicing Muslims are less than human? Is the idealogy of freedom that sewn up and watertight? Do we, as a society, not yet realize it? When will we?

Please, if you are going to give me some Liberal-Socialist Non-Producer-Hate-America-Anti Capitialist tripe about the US being the biggest threat to "human rights" by being the oil fueled fast food economy that is going to rape the planet until the human race is extinct, don't bother replying. If you want to discuss this from a stand point of being a freedom loving freedom seeking human soul, I want to hear from you.

My own logic disturbs me on a basic level. The classification of other members of the species as sub human smacks of racist or religious propaganda, without the race or religion. In fact, you could use this logic to justify the extermination of a whole belief system, an entire civilization. The word Islam literally means "submit."

There is another step to be taken in the logic, I just am so totally blown away by this train of thought I can barely comprehend the implications. Can you force freedom on those who don't want it?

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