When You’re Happy and You Know It
Posted in From the Heart by R Lee Wrights on April 29th, 2005 by Christy Ann Welty
When the master is kind and the shackles don’t bind, a slave will feel fairly treated.
That’s a broad generality and has its exceptions, but people throughout history have preferred practicalities like shelter and safety over freedom almost any day of the week as long as masters struck the right balance between being kind and demanding. For the vast majority of people, this is a fact of human nature. Deflating though it may be to a libertarian, the better we understand it, the better we can work with it.
My city’s rental inspection ordinance brought this to my attention. As a city councilor I have voted against every new infringement this ordinance brings with it, and have been working on some constructive alternatives. But those are stories for another time. I want to tell you how citizens are reacting to the situation.
