FreeDuck wrote:
DrewDad wrote:
Just because some folks two hundred years ago decided that Liberty was the most desirable thing in the world doesn't mean we have to follow in the same path.
If you remember, one key thing was the freedom to pursuit happiness. I think they understood that if you protected liberty then people could pursue their own happiness, to varying degrees of success. You can't guarantee happiness. In fact, I know from having children that sometimes the more you do to increase someone else's happiness the more it actually decreases.
Free Duck, if you would listen to your own advice, you would conclude that many of the Democrat's and Obama's socialistic policies are therefore the wrong road to follow. Doing stuff for people, taking care of people that are able bodied and capable of doing for themselves if otherwise held accountable, that is actually counterproductive in most cases. You are correct, happiness in children occurs when they are allowed to reap the consequences of their own actions, their own labors, their own studies, their own motivation. And it is no different with adults, even though many adults cry and sob, give us more, and they vote the person that promises them more, but sadly it is not what will make them happy.
All of the above is a big part of why I am a conservative. And you still haven't explained what you are and why. Solutions to problems and issues are determined by applying basic principles, and therefore you must have some foundational principles to solve problems.
