All right, confession time. I made it through high school (homeschooled, of course, but that is beside the point) and a year and a half of college without getting my driver's licence. Between my ability to walk or ride anywhere I feel like going, a required car-free existence as a freshman on my college campus, and the lack of a reliable hand-me-down car, I just never got around to taking the driven test.
Anyway, enough with my excuses. I found this on LRC this morning, a brilliant discussion on what it means to be free, through the lens of "the rules of the road." An awesome read, and a reminder that the requirement of health/safety in a state of freedom is responsibility. Stupidity cannot be legislated out of existence, and when "they" try, those of us who are responsible and can make reasonable assumptions about the safety of an action are stripped of the freedom to do something like text and drive if the situation is safe to do so.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/freedom-to-text133.html
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