andonehead-canneverdie asked: In your opinion, which is more egregious: a government restricting an individual's social rights, or her economic rights? Or is it a wash?
Definitely a wash. You can’t have one without the other. Ron Paul actually makes this point really well, so let me just rip off his answer with an excerpt from his speech at CPAC this year:
But back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces. We don’t think of freedom as something unified. There is only one kind of freedom, and that’s individual liberty…
…But I do not believe freedom can survive and I do not believe we as conservatives can contribute much if we still think freedom only comes in pieces: that you can protect economic liberty but not personal liberty.
