Yeah, but your dictionary definition doesn’t define WHO DECIDES what “order” is NEEDED in a society. Now, if it were to franchise a government solely to protect society from actual predators, you know, like robbers. rapists, murderers, child molesters and the like, who commit actual CRIMES, I have no beef with that. Or actual outside threats, such as Nazi Germany and the like (note the word ACTUAL, as opposed to POTENTIAL, as many RULERS like to keep their subjects in line with some vague, unspecified outside threat. See, for example, “1984” or similar.) But if, in your society, you want government to “protect people from themselves,” then I want no part of you. Because pretty soon that definition gets stretched to cover any private behavior that doesn’t gel with whoever’s on top, running the show, and we have a situation such as this nation and our society face today. And THAT is unacceptable.
Like I said, I didn’t invent the concept. I’m pretty sure I didn’t mention “protecting people from themselves.”
The founders themselves were proponents of “ordered liberty” and wrote the concept into the Federalist, the Declaration and the Constitution. The Founders, Edmund Burke, William F. Buckley, and Russell Kirk are far more capable than I at elaborating ... they’ve written entire books about the subject.
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