- To me, I was taught to think like this as a child. Basically it's like this. Do whatever you can to better yourself or others. Others have the same freedoms and responsibilities. But, if they fail they also have the right to die.
This all changed with the Great Depression when we moved through Social Security first so older people didn't just starve to death and die when they retired like they used to if they didn't have kids to help them survive or other relatives or friends to help them.
But, in understanding what created this country as successful as it was and is is primarily the opportunity to succeed or fail. To succeed and live or the opportunity to fail and die.
Though it is harsh it is what this country was founded upon and was how I as a child was taught to think about all this as a young person. So, especially as a young man in the 1950s I was trained to make decisions always without flinching. The point being, you cannot freeze up in regard to making decisions or your life is over. So, you just keep making decisions the best you can in a calm reasonable way. By doing this you make the best decisions you can in any given moment. But, you also reserve the right to change your decisions if you gain new and helpful information about anything in life. So, all decisions therefore can usually be changed given new variables along the way. This is the way I was taught to be as a man. To make my own rules and to live as "Captain of my own ship and Master of my own destiny". This attitude has never failed me because it works.
- Libertarian came to mean an advocate or defender of liberty, especially in the political and social spheres, as early as 1796, when the London Packet ...
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