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On the Fallacy of 'Progress' Part Ii

...Let them decide, on a one-by-one basis, what constitutes improvement in their lives. don’t try to push on them moral ideas, leave that to their own conscience to decide. Those Founding Fathers had the right idea, freedom is the thing mankind can know, and progress is not an external cause, it’s a person’s choice how to change or grow. Since society is made of people the only way that the whole can improve, is if the ones decide, of their own free will, to take it upon themselves to do good. But individuals can’t be predicted, and differ greatly on what they think is right, so for every one who pulls themselves up another will plunge down, right out of sight. For every one who chooses charity, another will give in to their own greed, some chose to work to get their daily bread, others will turn to crime to get what they need. No power exists that can rewrite our will, even suppressed it still finds a way out, to get all mankind moving one ‘preferred’ way is something evolution won’t allow. This is not a truth some folks want to hear, they dream of remaking mankind anew, but human nature is something that can’t change, protecting rights is the best we can do.

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