What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn’t make it worse. Not being open about it doesn’t make it go away. And because it’s true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn’t there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.
משלי כ”ד י’ – י”ב:
דרך אגב, הזכרנו את המאמר לעיל גם ב”מדריך מעשי לשיחה עם אתאיסט”. כדי לקבל את המדריך המיוחד בחינם, הרשם לרשימת התפוצה שלנו כאן.
Check out this great article from Rafi Farber regarding the Charedi resistance to the Israeli military draft.
From TheJewishLibertarian.com, here.
Here is a fine quote from Murray Rothbard:
… the proponents of government intervention are trapped in a fatal contradiction:
they assume that individuals are not competent to run their own affairs or to hire experts to advise them. And yet they also assume that these same individuals are equipped to vote for these same experts at the ballot box.
We have seen that, on the contrary, while most people have a direct idea and a direct test of their own personal interests on the market, they cannot understand the complex chains of praxeological and philosophical reasoning necessary for a choice of rulers or political policies.
Yet this political sphere of open demagogy is precisely the only one where the mass of individuals are deemed to be competent!