Blog Question of the Day - Are we who defend Freedom....selfish? - Granite Grok

Blog Question of the Day – Are we who defend Freedom….selfish?

Milton Friedman - Freedom and equality

We are fortunate to have some of the “smahtest” commenters in NH.  From Ken’s post “Couple Under House Arrest After Testing Positive For COVID-19“:

A Kentucky couple is under house arrest because one of them tested positive for COVID-19 and refused to sign self-quarantine papers. Elizabeth Linscott got tested for COVID-19 because she was planning to visit her parents and wanted to be cautious.  Although she showed no symptoms, her test came back positive.  She verbally agreed to self-quarantine and call the Health Department if she were to go out for any reason.  But she refused to sign a document from the Health Department that mandated she…

NHNative left this:

We are being conditioned to see our freedom as selfish.

Certainly Bruce Currie, frequent commenter “from the other side” believes that we who think that it should be an individual’s choice ARE selfish.  BLM supporters don’t believe we should have the freedom to just sit on the sidelines. And now, Berniece Van Der Berg, the Co-Founder – Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Moonlight Meadery considers our Freedom of Speech to be violence, has threatened us with a ‘criminal threatening’ lawsuit.

What say you? Are we who defend Freedom….selfish?

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