"As for me, I fear we spend too much in consideration of too little. I think that if you stay within the law and are not doing any harm to anyone, you may do whatever you wish. If we must live with the ills of capitalism and the free market, we ought at least to take advantage of some of its freedoms. Social thinkers may decry the eventual implications of your actions, but that is not your problem. If it were your problem, then your freedom to act as you wished as long as you were not harming anyone would be meaningless. You would be responsible for the slightest reverberations of your behavior on through the centuries. You would be paralyzed. That is why we have laws. Where there is clear danger or harm, we have laws. Where there are no laws, we have freedom of action."
- Cary Tennis, in response to a letter to his column on Salon.com
The topic of the letter was just mildly interesting to me, but it was this paragraph in the response that struck me. I don't have the mental awakeness right now to describe my mental predicament that leads me to paralysis. Perhaps I will come back and edit this post at a later time.
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