Rights Are A Protection From Society. But

Moral Crusade: Public Activity Undertaken By Middle-aged Men Who Are Cheating On Their Wives Or Diddling Little Boys. Moral Crusades Are Particularly Popular Among Those Seeking Power For Their Own Personal Pleasure, Politicians Who Can't Think Of Anything Useful To Do With Their Mandates, And Religious Professionals Suffering From A Personal Inability To Communicate With Their God.

United States:. A Nation Given Either To Unjustified Over-enthusiasms Or Infantile Furies.

Like All Religions, Reason Presents Itself As The Solution To The Problems It Has Created

After All, In Both Languages We Were Dealing In Large Measure Not With English And French, But With Scots And Irish, Bretons And Normans ... There Could Be No More Eloquent Illustration Of The Colonial Mind-set Than A Bunch Of Celts And Vikings In A Distant Northern Territory Insulting Each Other As Les Anglais And The French As If They Were The Descendants Of The People Who Had Subjected And Ruined Them.

It Is Undoubtedly Easier To Believe In Absolutes, Follow Blindly, Mouth Received Wisdom. But That Is Self-betrayal.