The 4th of July, Independence Day. Some screech loudly about their personal freedoms and their right to do everything from marry a member of the same sex to owning and discharging a firearm. Usually those yelling the most are probably the ones who should be restricted in some way from their desires.
My experiences have taught me that many people who loudly demand their rights are often the first to attempt to limit the rights of others. Such hypocrisy is galling, and seems to be pretty much par for the course. Is total freedom not the ultimate aim? Some would call that anarchy.
I have seen many shirts and bumper stickers declaring that freedom is not free. Well of course it isn't. Everything in life has a cost in one way or another. I put forth the proposition that most of us really don't even WANT total freedom. We would be terrified.
Our nature is to follow and be comforted by order and structure. We would feel like we were in free fall from an airplane without rules and regulations. If I can drive 100 mph down a city street, so can you, and if we meet in an intersection, we will both learn about the freedoms afforded us in the afterlife.
Enjoy the freedoms of our great nation on the 4th...but watch what you wish for. It could be far more than you bargained for or are ready to accept.
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