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(Top) This is your grasshopper 🦗
(Bottom) This is your grasshopper on #epigenetics 🧬 (i.e. a locust)

https://aeon.co/essays/the-selfish-gene-is-a-great-meme-too-bad-it-s-so-wrong

#meme #biology #evolution #genetics

It’s now the “liberal” #SocialJustice warriors who[…]’ve set abt attempting to create & impose[…]a new conception of the sacred[…], along w/ its natural corollary: the conception of blasphemy (#racism, #homophobia, #transphobia & the like).
#Conservative/s […]have sought to fight this new menace[…]by appealing to classical #liberal bromides concerning #freespeech, #individualism, & the necessity of a #secular public square that’s agnostic abt ultimate metaphysical goods.

https://www.postliberalthought.com/blog//social-justice-and-the-re-enchantment-of-the-world

Icons of the Immaculate Inception

"[A] city, by virtue of its establishment has the obligation to establish laws for the #CommonGood of those living in its jurisdiction."

~David W. Cooney https://is.gd/etinHk

#subsidiarity

"It is only by acknowledging and protecting the inherent functions and duties of each order of community that true #liberty can be established and protected in any society."

~David W. Cooney https://is.gd/etinHk

#subsidiarity

"People live in communities because that is human nature. By living in community, people have natural obligations toward one another. Each order of community exists for a purpose consistent with human nature to protect the #CommonGood for its members."

~David W. Cooney https://is.gd/etinHk

#subsidiarity

"#Rights are based on obligations which come from nature. There is no such thing as a right without an obligation to establish it. People think that #freedom is achieved by protecting #rights. In reality, #freedom is achieved by protecting #duties."

~David W. Cooney https://is.gd/etinHk

#subsidiarity

"By having children, parents are obligated to care for, educate, and raise them to be virtuous people. They also become obligated to support and care for one another, for the #CommonGood of each other and the children they are obligated to raise."

~David W. Cooney https://is.gd/etinHk

#subsidiarity #rights

"Therefore, neither the higher, nor the lower, orders of community may usurp the roles and authorities that are part of the internal life of any given community. This applies regardless of the form of government. It applies equally to a #monarchy, a #republic, or any other form."

~David W. Cooney https://is.gd/etinHk

#subsidiarity

"Even if the choice of leaders and the precise definition of laws involves the choice of its members, the existence and authority of a community's government is by its nature, by the needs it exists to fulfill to preserve the #CommonGood." ~David W. Cooney https://is.gd/etinHk

#subsidiarity

"An important difference between #subsidiarity and the view more commonly accepted in our society is that the higher levels don't get their authority from the lower levels. What authority they have is natural to them by their existence." ~David W. Cooney https://is.gd/etinHk

"#Subsidiarity [...] takes an older view of the #socialcontract idea, where the 'contract' may establish the form of government and who will hold the positions of government, but is limited in terms of establishing the functions of government."

~David W. Cooney https://is.gd/etinHk

#subsidiarity

Proceeding will be selections from this excellent summary of #subsidiarity by David W. Cooney that distinguish its fundamental principles from Enlightenment #socialcontract conceptions of #limitedgovernment and #federalism

http://practicaldistributism.blogspot.com/2014/01/distributism-basics-nature-and-roles-of.html

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