Anti-Freedom

"[I]t sure would be intellectually honest if more people started framing their arguments in the terms, 'I don't like freedom on this issue and here is why...'

You pretty much never see that. I mean, gun control is an anti-freedom stance, but they never argue it that way. I think maybe that's why they don't understand how unpopular their stance is.

The same thing with the health care debate. The mandate is an anti-freedom stance, but they try to say they're for more freedom by ending worries about health care, which is BS.

One thing is freedom and one thing isn't; it's not debatable. Putting a gun to someone's head and saying, 'You must buy health insurance!' isn't freedom and no one should pretend it is. It's okay to take an anti-freedom stance, you just should frame it [in] terms of why you think your ideas are better than liberty. And that will probably also help you understand why so many people don't like your views, as the left always seems to get caught off guard by that."

--humorist Frank J. Fleming