Opinion: Take high ground against legislation

Is everything hopeless? The dominant cultures around the world have gone insane. Dishonest ideas, presented as normal or reasonable, are forced on us and the young and the gullible seem powerless to resist. Social media makes diseased ideas seem trendy and cool.

As long as you don’t allow someone to violate you, let them be wrong. People have the right to make mistakes and you have the right to defend yourself from the consequences of their mistakes -- without violating their equal and identical rights. This is what liberty is.

Take care of yourself, because if you are unable to stand against the rising tide of insanity, who could replace you? Make sure you are OK no matter what happens around you; no matter what disastrous path society takes.

Don’t allow yourself to be forced to act as though lies are truth. It’s dangerous to stand your ground against armies of smug liars with power. Do it anyway.

Speak the truth even when it costs you; even when those around you claim you’re hurting someone’s feelings.

Don’t suggest “there ought to be a law” -- there are ethical ways of dealing with these lies. Ways that don’t involve the other horrific lie, that political government is somehow legitimate in some circumstances. It’s not.

People who haven’t got a leg to stand on will always seek to make up new legislation to force the world to conform to the way they wish it were. Then they’ll use those who enforce legislation to get what they want. Don’t be like them.

Legislation is the low ground; take the high ground. You do you, and let them fall off the cliff if this is what they are determined to do. If you try to save them and they pull you over the edge too, no one is better off. If you can keep someone from following them into oblivion, though, do it, within the limits of what you have a right to do.

No one has the right to prevent you from doing anything that harms no other person nor violates their property. No one has the right to punish you for living in this way. A government job doesn’t create this right, nor can a law. To stand up against the insanity you’re going to need to become comfortable doing things that are unpopular with “the crowd.”

You’re reading this so I have faith in you. You give me hope.

Farwell’s Kent McManigal champions liberty. Contact him at:

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