>Tristan,
>
>> >So you envision a situation in which some means of producing convenience
>> >or wealth inadvertently results in degrading liberty?
>>
>> Well, let me draw some parallels. The Boston Massacre involved just a few
>> people. The taxes Great Britain took from the colonists is nowhere near
>> the taxes taken from the American populace by the U.S. government.
>> However, since people today generally have more wealth than people back
>> then, I would say they tolerate it more. Wouldn't you?
>
>Yes, they tolerate it more. I don't think that has anything to do with
>having more wealth but rather with modern brainwashing. But what
>connection
>does any of this have to your previous statements?
If you subscribe to the notion that more wealth means more happiness, as
I do, then the situation becomes clearer. If the average Joe can be more
wealthy at the expense of his freedom, he will choose wealth.
I think I just may have realized where you are getting confused here.
When I say "can be more wealthy at the expense of his freedom" - I don't
mean more wealth produces less freedom. I don't mean to say, that you
trade freedom for wealth. Rather, I mean to say, if the average Joe has a
choice between his principles (staying unwealthy because he will not give
us his freedom) or wealth (ahh, it's just a little freedom to sacrifice,
that's all), he will invariable choose to have more wealth at the expense
of his freedom. The average Joe is not concerned about morality and
principles in his view of everyday life, thus trading "just a little"
freedom so parasites don't bother him is fine.
Tristan
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