There ought to be a law.......

If you've spent any time in a public space - airport, ballpark, subway station or Starbucks, to name a few - you've heard someone bloviating in an inappropriately loud voice: "There ought to be a law.........." followed by a description of a behavior they find personally offensive that should be regulated or legislated out of existence.

"There should be a law against bi-lingual education in public schools"

"There should be a law against selling guns in America."

"There should be a law that forces US Corporations to hire Americans."

The corollaries of course are:

"I have right to ......"

"There should be a tax on ....."

"They shouldn't let........"

The fact that our children are being (and have long been) subject to this blather-as-pedagogy in our public and now private school systems is likely the cause for the low quality of public discourse in the Republic today.

We should teach our children to be suspicious of anyone who wants to force us to act for our own good.

They should know that liberty and legislation are a zero-sum game. One cannot be increased without the exact and equal decline of the other.

They should know that compulsion is the root of all law and that while some level of freedom is always sacrificed to the commonweal, despotism lurks in the shadows of every pillar of a well-ordered society.

If only there were a national organization that would represent this point of view.

I would send them money so that they could hire lobbyists to go plead my case on Capitol Hill.