First Principles

ConserveLiberty takes the perspective that each of us is BUILT uniquely. We differ by virtue of our inherited genetic traits and instincts. There is even slight variation in the way these inherited features get put together. However closely we may resemble each other, much like snowflakes no two of us are alike. Even genetically identical twins (each a clone of the other) turn out a little differently.

While we certainly do learn and are influenced both socially and physically by our environments, circumstances, family, and friends ... all of us start our journeys through life with different bodies and personalities than any other person we will ever meet.

Seems obvious. Look around. Ask any parent who has had two or more kids. We all start differently.

We wind up with different talents, different interests, different urges, different ways of interacting with, perceiving and regarding the world around us.

We gain tremendous advantage in coming together as a community by leveraging these differences. Especially our behavioral differences - our differences in preference.

Each of us, then, needs the room, latitude, freedom to adapt personally to our unique circumstances, and our unique physical and personality gifts. We each must make the decisions which reflect the goals and directions and preferences we feel are appropriate in our lives. Who is better able to manage, cope with, and leverage the unique mix of personal strengths, weaknesses, and interests that each of us possess than ... our own selves? We require, in other words, individual Liberty.

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It is how we decide to cooperatively engage with each other that we leverage our differences as strengths. The many become stronger than the one. And we become strongest when we allow those who are drawn into different vocations, in part due to instinctive and trait differences, to pursue that which they are drawn to. We are all better off letting someone who wants to farm grow our food, and someone else who wants to engineer create our cars and factories than to insist that someone who wants to paint houses instead provide our medical care, or someone who wants to educate instead bake our bread or repair our roads and bridges.

Who ought to decide, then, who ought to do what? And for how long? And at what energy level?

Embrace individual liberty. Listen to and consider the preferences of "the other." Accept personal responsibility. Thrive by offering what you are good at to another. Excel.

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