Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Should America sacrifice its survival to its ideals?

Should America sacrifice its survival to its ideals? Daniel Greenfield writes,

This notion is found most strongly among liberals for whom the actual physical survival of the country ranks a distant second to its duty to live up to its ideals. That is why liberals can argue that torture is wrong even in a ticking nuclear bomb scenario.

The logic of libertarian amnesty would fill the voting rolls full of supporters of big government and the welfare state in the name of economic freedom.

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