Independence Day is here.
Across the nation, Americans will celebrate, host and attend barbeques, and otherwise make the most of July 4th. Today marks the anniversary of this great nation’s independence and freedom; yet, July 4th, 2021 especially drives home the value of U.S. freedoms.
The ultimate greater good
Over the past year, many leaders and people on the political left have justified anti-freedom measures (mandatory face masking, compulsory shutdowns of businesses, government orders for Americans not to leave their homes, vaccine passports, etc.) as necessary for the greater good.
The argument on the left asserted that the sooner Americans “temporarily” sacrificed freedoms for the so-called “greater good,” the sooner these freedoms would be returned.
This mindset is wrong and dangerous. For starters, whenever people begin forcing through broad, sweeping, one-size-fits-all measures for the so-called “greater good,” it never really ends well. Look no further than Adolf Hitler; Hitler believed that mass genocide of Jewish people served as an act for the “greater good.”
