Oct

23

Thought for the Day

Filed Under Politics 

Here is a quote/thought worth pondering:

Democracy means the rule of the people and its duly elected representatives, not the rule of unelected judges. Professional do-gooders, intoxicated by the emotion of virtue, are dangerous threats to public tranquility. Traditional morality became traditional largely because it provided sound answers to the hard problems of human frailty. Custom and convention are generally not the enemy of freedom but, on the contrary, something closer to its precondition. The single-minded pursuit of self-fulfillment is self-defeating. Individuality, like freedom, thrives best when limited by commitment and respect for values that transcend the individual.

– Roger Kimball, in a review of Robert Bork’s Coercing Virture in National Review October 13, 2003[subscription required]

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