Society Of Public Health Education
Can freedom and equality co-exist equally?
Or, must one be compromised for the other? I cannot help but wonder b/c it seems to me that we live in a very stratified society (with the gap between the rich & the poor getting wider) which makes the U.S. a very economically unequal society. And it seems to me that our freedom has also been handcuffed when millions of American citizens cannot afford health insurance and our public education being inferior to many countries in the world. Are we free citizens of the United States? I’m so confused.
Any freedom that does not connote the freedom to fail is not freedom at all.
The Constitution never promised equality of results, only equality in justice under objective law designed to punish acts which encroach upon the equal rights of others.
Nothing can be more unjust than enactment of laws that encroach upon equal rights and freedom in the name of “social” justice.
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice. — Fredrich August von Hayek, on Equality
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. — Frederic Bastiat
