The paradox of freedom..................

     "The modern mind is a door with no house to it; a gigantic gate to nowhere.....The modern mind wishes to do away with such quaint ideas as right and wrong.  The modern mind thinks that freedom somehow means breaking the rules.  But here is where tradition is, as it generally is, on the side of truth.  Tradition tells us that the rules are right.  We cannot prove them to be right, except perhaps when we see the consequences of trying to do away with them.  The Ten Commandments, for instance.  Throughout history, men have certainly failed to live up to them.  But in modern times, men have more disastrously failed in trying to live without them.   But it is only in establishing and obeying certain rules that freedom is possible.  If we break the big laws, we do not get freedom.  We do not even get anarchy.  We get the small laws......."
-Dale Ahlquist, Common Sense 101:  Lessons from G. K. Chesterton