Of what use is liberty if we must be something we are not?

Excellent point. One of the issues that disturbs me most in this area is the increasing use of psychotropic drugs to make individuals across nearly the entire age spectrum “be something they are not”. But that’s a separate issue.

[W]e are also a social species. Nothing wrong with all of that, but certain people with bad intentions do attempt to take advantage of that.

True enough, but possibly equally harmful are those in The Family who have a near-reflexive aversion to any kind of arranged group activity. As if there’s no difference between a group of individuals voluntarily forming a temporary committee to achieve some goal and laws or regulations that mandate certain behavior ...

Great blogs like yours certainly helps me cut through the BS.

Well, thanks. I certainly don’t have many answers, but I do have lots of questions; and I think playing with them is far more rewarding than listening to anyone else’s “answers” for my life.

(Oh, for anyone interested in this detail: use the blockquote tag to quote someone and get that nice box around his words.)