Leaving the Country
A bunch of people say they want to leave the country because of the election results. I have mixed feelings about this.
On the one hand, I decided in my youth that if someone doesn't want to be with me, I didn't want them with me. I think this philosophy saved me from a great deal of angst in middle and high school.
On the other hand, Lincoln used force to prevent a bunch of people leaving the last time. Preservation of the Union is important. While I'd cut loose a "friend" in school who was being a jerk, I would try to maintain a relationship with my brother.
I could flesh these thoughts out more, but I doubt the overwhelming majority of people who say it are serious about it anyway ... which just made me think of this.
On the one hand, I decided in my youth that if someone doesn't want to be with me, I didn't want them with me. I think this philosophy saved me from a great deal of angst in middle and high school.
On the other hand, Lincoln used force to prevent a bunch of people leaving the last time. Preservation of the Union is important. While I'd cut loose a "friend" in school who was being a jerk, I would try to maintain a relationship with my brother.
I could flesh these thoughts out more, but I doubt the overwhelming majority of people who say it are serious about it anyway ... which just made me think of this.
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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