Recalling the words of Ayn Rand, the Russian-American philosopher of the late 20th century the issue encapsulates how an assault on free individual choice and personal merit can have sad outcomes. Rand contended that political coercion of such a nature invariably results in a cost to society. She wrote: “when you see - • that trading is done not by consent, but by compulsion; • that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; • that money flows to those who deal not in goods, but favours; • that men get richer by graft and pull than by work – and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you; • that corruption gets rewarded and honesty becomes self sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed.”
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:12:53 +0000