It seems to me that the main freedom that seems to be of concern to Paul and his supporters is that of business. Is it more important to actually make the promise of freedom under emancipation in 1862 mean something, or that successful business men never have their freedom interfered with. Rand clearly is concerned about the latter.
Business are the noble and put upon by the state class in this view. I have to say that really this shows that freedom’s constantly bump into one another. Society then makes choices about what freedom prevails.
When I was younger I thought of businessmen as noble worth of more a break than they were getting. I didn’t trust politicians with seeming good intentions. I might of agreed with Paul.
Now I think of almost all human behavior as rarely (but occasionally) noble. Given that business is no more noble than government in my thinking now: I no longer would buy the Rand Paul argument.
At its heart, it seems to boil down to saying: “do we value freedom for commercial activity or a long oppressed group. I say commercial activity.”
I make the other choice.
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