We Must Teach Children To Love Freedom More Than Government
There is a sentence that has long bothered me. It is treated as a piece of universal wisdom that humans gain with experience, and surely every member of a modern, industrial society has heard it in some form. Whether spoken by a close friend or complete stranger, its utterance usually comes with a sly grin that invites the listener to reconsider a fundamental belief. Here it is: That’s not how the real world works.
That dirty, little sentence slithers into conversations meant to turn a person’s perception of reality upside down. We hear it when we question why people who commit the same criminal offenses are often punished differently. We hear it when we question why less qualified people are admitted to schools or offered jobs to other applicants’ detriment. We hear it when we question why certain businesses always seem to get government contracts, even when they routinely overcharge and underperform. We learn that laws, merit, moral character, and hard work exist alongside nepotism, prejudice, favoritism, corruption, and other invisible factors that magnify or hinder individual opportunity.
What’s particularly strange about this lesson is that most of us do not learn it firsthand until we have neared the end of our teenaged years. For those who have been fortunate enough to grow up in good families with loving parents committed to moral principles, it can be jarring to step into the “real world” to discover a society awash with malign influences and untruths.
An eighteen-year-old who joins the military is inclined to believe that the government would never reckles
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