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| Rick Kelo |
There is no word more often associated with freedom than Democracy. However, as Rick Kelo points out, there's nothing inherently free about Democracy.
Liberalism, and it's economic off-spring laissez-faire, sets the individual as the basic moral unit of society and serves her at her level according to her preferences. As a political example in a liberal government the state exists to protect the rights of the individual so that the 50.1% who are dog owners cannot outlaw the ownership of cats as a pet. As an economic example there need not be a 50.1% majority interested in collecting stamps in order for someone in a capitalist economy to serve stamp collectors.
Rick Kelo is concerned though that a popular vote of 50.1% can be used to justify immorality. If 50.1% of people favor "Safe Spaces" then does that over-ride the right to free speech, or freedom of religion for people entering those areas?
As a staunch defender of human freedom to Rick Kelo it does not. "If a Muslim happens to be crossing a 'safe space' at a time when they're supposed to pray it's illegitimate and tyrannical to deny them their freedom of religion just because every other person in that space is a Christian," he points out using a contrarian example.
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