❝❝The simple answer is that moral responsibility is always a personal choice. You can't compel virtue or it ceases to be virtue.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ moral responsibility ∙ personal choice ∙ virtue

the ORIGINAL NeoNotes™

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❝❝First, not all feminists. And not all lesbians.

Now with that out of the way, these particular females (I will not dignify them as ladies) do have a big problem.

It's all about the guilt. If the guys don't feel guilt, there is no way these females will get their way. I for one am tired of it. I've been lectured to about the need for keeping silent when the RadFems are speaking. I've been lectured for pointing out that environmentalism makes no sense while ecology does. I've been lectured for saying #AllLivesMatter. And I have been lectured to when I refused to change my lifestyle because it is not acceptable to feminism.

KYFHO.

I make the same stand against them that I make against some of the conservative Christians. My life is my own. My choices are my own. My responsibility is my own.

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Unfortunately, that's not enough for some conservative Christians.

They want to meddle. For the greater good, of course.

And that means taking lives and responsibility away from other people.

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If you bother to read my comments, you'll find I don't try to hide what I am saying. After all, I am a pagan libertarian posting openly on a conservative mostly Christian board.

If you had asked me about the "culture wars," I'd tell you that war is the wrong way to think about it. War is backed by force. If you can't convince someone that your way is right without resorting to force, you're doing it wrong.

What you believe isn't important to me. Your freedom to choose what to believe, that is vital. That is what I will defend.❞ class="ghoster">❞

NeoNotes are the selected comments that I made on other boards, in email, or in response to articles where I could not respond directly.

❝❝We are a nation of individuals, of individual liberty and responsibilities, of individual choice and individual passion. We're the first nation like that in recorded history, it is our legacy.

Our faiths, like Christianity, are a part of that.

Please think about this. You may believe that your God makes the sun rise, but your faith doesn't control my actions. Likewise, my faith doesn't control you.

We have to find common ground outside religion. Otherwise it's a matter of whose religion is "in charge," and that way will destroy liberty.❞❞

Tags: personal freedom ∙ commenting ∙ personal responsiblity ∙ personal choice ∙ passion ∙ Christianity ∙ common ground ∙ liberty

More than one stream.

Tags: personal choice ∙ personal freedom ∙ personal responsiblity ∙ RadFem

My goal isn’t winning internet arguments, it’s freedom.

Tags: internet ∙ informed choice ∙ modern liberal ∙ progressive ∙ conservative ∙ personal choice ∙ statist ∙ freely chosen

I believe that economics and morality should be based in free choice.

Tags: mercantilism ∙ freely chosen ∙ personal freedom ∙ personal choice ∙ crony capitalism ∙ private sector

Is it really all that different than the 1960s?

Tags: religion ∙ personal choice ∙ personal responsiblity ∙ religious view ∙ spiritual view ∙ force

My take on true believers of all stripes.

Tags: Original Vigil ∙ religion ∙ favorites ∙ Christianity ∙ Pagan ∙ classic ∙ freely chosen ∙ Founders ∙ personal choice ∙ reciprocity