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Many believe the priority of the US government should be to protect individual liberties before saving lives or improving quality of life, even if to do so is a
by kube-system 1y ago
Many believe the priority of the US government should be to protect individual liberties before saving lives or improving quality of life, even if to do so is at their detriment.
- watwut 1y agoThere is no such major group. There are people who think saving lives or improving quality of life does not matter, but those are also against individual liberties. They care about lowering taxes, more or less. They care about hierarchy. But they do not care about liberties or freedom as such, not for anyone except the top of the hierarchy. They are consistently voting for politicians that restrict those and want to return back to times when average person was considerably less free. They are good at using freedom as a slogan, as an excuse to enact anti-freedom agenda, repeatedly, again and again.
- thrance 1y agoYes, I'd even add that those liberties are almost all negative liberties: freedom to X instead of freedom from Y. Few are interested in defending the freedom to not die in a car crash.