A Penchant for Controlling Others - Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. - Mises Daily

A Penchant for Controlling Others - Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. - Mises Daily: "We all want freedom for ourselves, but many people have doubts about the way others might use their own freedom."

"Think of this the next time you are in a big city zooming around curves and between lanes along with thousands of others, doing top speeds. Here we have 4,000-pound hunks of steel barreling down the road without aids other than a dotted yellow line on the road. These are real-life death machines in which one wrong move could cause a 100-car pileup and mass death. We do it anyway.

What's remarkable is not that there are so many wrecks. The miracle is that it works at all and that, for the most part, people get to where they are going."

"It is in everyone's interest to get to where one is going in one piece and to do it efficiently."

"We generally trust our capacity to manage ourselves but we do not trust the capacity of others to manage themselves. And we surely don't believe that society can generally function well under conditions of freedom"