Liberty Delivers a Better World While Utopians Promise a Perfect One However lofty the goals, if the means be depraved, the result must reflect that depravity. ............... Leonard Read recognized that liberty, which produces voluntary arrangements that evolve once one’s rights to one’s self and production are protected, provides the means of achieving the best that is actually achievable in advancing society. As we develop ourselves, we each have more to offer others, without requiring immoral acts. And what freedom has historically accomplished, beyond anyone’s ability to envision it, extended to further as-yet-unknowable possibilities, provides ample reason to trust it over coercive alternatives. Defending liberty requires developing our ability to “see” the unseen (and often unimagined) good that can only be accomplished by freeing people’s ability to peacefully create and innovate. We must also be able to “see” and articulate the inherent failings of the coercive and immoral means employed toward utopian goals, which are unachievable despite such means. With such vision, liberty can be recognized as far more inspirational than any statist alternative. mises.org/daily/6541/Liberty-Delivers-a-Better-World-While-Utopians-Promise-a-Perfect-One
Posted on: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 22:31:21 +0000
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