Political Theory

Re: Just read Horton hears a Who

QuisCustodiet — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:36:23 GMT

Justin Amash a while ago read some Dr. Seuss book to school kids in his district and used it to teach the kids the difference between democracy and freedom. I'm not on Facebook anymore, so I can't find his original post or what the book was :/ I'm pretty sure it happened this past Spring, though.

Re: Just read Horton hears a Who

Wheylous — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:39:04 GMT

Neodoxy - I meant the Jungle animals oppressing him.

Re: Just read Horton hears a Who

Groucho — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:29:52 GMT

You're gonna hate "The Lorax"

Re: Just read Horton hears a Who

Neodoxy — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:28:19 GMT

Horton voluntarily chose to save thousands of lives. No one forced him to. It was a noble action which displayed a great libertarian respect for life and indeed personal responsibility.

Just read Horton hears a Who

Wheylous — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:25:11 GMT

And WOW, coming from an AnCap perspective, all I could think of the whole time was the awful oppression of the Elephant! Even if he is insane, leave him be! Wow, it was so bad!

It also gave me the idea that children's books likely have a huge potential to introduce pro-liberty messages.