| What of those things that you do to yourself that then affect others?? Drinking alcohol is legal, drinking alcohol and then driving is not legal. One could use your argument to defend the banning of such laws. Part of living in a society is the consent of one to certain freedoms for the protection of other freedoms. Without the protection of government to secure these freedoms, all your freedoms would be at stake. Here in lies the contradiction. Sacrificing full liberty, for a more secure liberty.
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Conservatism, I repeat is not an ideology. It does not breed fanatics....But if you want men who seek, reasonably and prudently, to reconcile the best in wisdom of our ancestors with the change which is essential to a vigorous civil social existence, then you will do well to turn to conservative principles
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