Natural law can be boiled down to two main pillars, the masculine self-defense principle and the feminine non-aggression principle (NAP), and BOTH provide freedom as a cause and they provide safety as an effect; it can be summarized by the saying “do no harm and take no shit”. The masculine self-defense principle provides freedom to myself to live my life free from external interference (as long as I stay within the limits of objective morality, which is governed by the NAP), and as a result of providing me with freedom from interference, I can feel safe. The feminine non-aggression principle provides freedom to others to live their lives free from my external interference (which is the literal definition of objective morality), and as a result of my being moral by providing them with freedom from my interference, they can feel safe. In both cases, safety is a net effect of the principle that the two pillars of natural law stand for, which is “to be free from, and to provide others freedom from my, external interference”, aka liberty.
Graphic courtesy of Mark Passio’s video on the 2nd Amendment.
In our current society, freedom and safety are at odds with each other, and they lead to opposing worldviews with different outcomes, where they can be seen as a spectrum where having more freedom typically equates to having less safety, and having more safety typically equates to having less freedom. Unfortunately, the safety that is provided at the expense of freedom in such a spectrum is at best conformist, and in the worst case becomes downright tyrannical slavery and self-sacrifice to keep oneself safe; it is an unsustainable and therefore false sense of safety then, an image of safety and not the real thing.
TRUTH & FREEDOM
Jesus said “you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free”, which seemingly makes truth and freedom synonymous, or at the worst, interlinked concepts, but it also means that any safety that would come at the expense of freedom would have to be a lie, and focused on lies. Those who make safety their primary value are therefore liars, just as those who seek freedom are truth seekers; unfortunately, liars don’t just fight to keep their right to live their lies, because their lies make them feel ashamed when they are around those who value freedom and the truth, and feeling their shame really doesn’t feel safe to them, so liars go so far as to make war with and aggressively attack those who stand for truth, therefore violating the non-aggression principle, which means they are immoral people.
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