Freedom and Equality

I was sitting in class today listening to my overly liberal Professor say "If people have too much freedom they wont know what to do with it and end up going crazy."

Seriously? Liberals are pretty cynical when it comes to human nature, I mean honestly, we do live in the freest country in the world. We are allowed to place our minds, bodies, and souls into social, political and religious institutions that others fear, hate and don't understand. This is a strong individual right supported by the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

My Professor is basically making a very liberal argument, that people are so weak they need big government to guide their lives and give them a nudge in the right direction. While there do exist people who others think are weak, even though weak minded people are still free to choose what's best for their lives regardless of 

what an outsider thinks, this liberal elitism is senseless.

Next, is equality. I plan on doing a post about the fallacy of how redistributing wealth somehow equals equality. In my personal experience from living in Europe for 3 years, I saw this socialist tenant bread nothing but irresponsibility, laziness and racism. 

Ironically, those same three things are what socialists say capitalism breads. They are wrong...

Simple fact, you and I are individuals. We have individual needs, wants, desires, beliefs and experiences. Yes, we are equal because we are human, regardless of gender or race but we are also very different. Since I am not you and you are not me, you do not get to determine how I live my life nor do I determine how you live yours. For this reason, we are unequal and in my opinion this individual inequality is highly positive. Take away our individual rights to be, well individuals, and you take away everything that makes us unique.

I am not society, which is quite simply made up of individuals. I am and only can be one thing, and that is myself. I know what I want in life and while guidance is a good thing, whether it be from God or a social or religious organization, I am still just an individual within that group  interacting with other individuals who have difference wants and needs than I do.

So, to conclude, people who are strong individuals know and recognize that they are free, will not take those freedoms for granted and understand their rights as individuals is higher than collective human rights, which does nothing but demonize the individual in favor the pushing of nonexistent equality on others.