onsdag 23 februari 2011

Varför frihet?

Nu när afrikanerna skakar av sig sina korrupta härskare med samma snabbhet som modebloggarna gör sig av med gårdagens utstyrsel, så börjar jag undra. Vad är egentligen skälen till att människor bör ha sin frihet? Finns där någon naturlag som styr det? Eller kan 68-vänstern ha rätt i att vissa människor (inte en själv, givetvis...) har det bättre med en stark och faderlig hand vid rodret?

Efter en kvälls slötittande på reklam-TV tror jag att den mest infantila reklamen faktiskt har hittat ett korn: "Because you're worth it...". Gäller även folk från Libyen eller Kampuchea.

Annars sades det rätt bra redan för några hundra år sedan:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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