PROEM & POEM No. 98 - Jefferson, Epicurean or Lockean / Part 3 ~
Whether motivated by Epicurus (as classically interpreted), John Locke or other sources, Mr. Jefferson’s posture led to the vague coinage Pursuit of Happiness. Indeed, a commonly desirous state of mind, that is to say “to be happy”, yet erroneously categorizing a desirable, psychological context as unalienable and rightful, without particular definition thus without practical application, without empirical logic thus without observable consistency.
To exasperate further, the plural view of rights was inherited and perpetuated by United States’ cofounder, later protracted and promulgated into additional flamboyancies utopian (see Nos. 27-28), arguably unsubstantiated, economically unsustainable, as well inescapably constant the disregard for the Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent, inseparably the disrespect for the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason.
What then are life, liberty, property, happiness, freedoms of speech, press, religion, or more recently, publicly funded education of all levels, healthcare of all sorts, welfare or basic income guarantee, various subsidies, grants, etc., but merely collective pursuits thus not rights, and if ethical then by individual therefore unanimous consent, else as unethical whether by the dissent of one versus one million.
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O Libertatem, carissimum te esse mibi, per reasoning
Consenting or dissenting, since humanity’s beginning
Empirically the consistency, self-evidently the logic
Without rarity, equipoising by the one and only ethic
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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
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