"A person who seeks to teach others how to garden and thereby grow their own food is practicing empowerment
and is therefore GOOD. But a person who seeks to place other people on
government food stamps and thereby make them dependent on government for
their food is practicing control and is inherently EVIL.
A
school that teaches students to think for themselves and engage in
critical, skeptical thinking about the world around them is practicing empowerment and is therefore GOOD. But a school that teaches students blind obedience to institutional authority while denying them the liberty to think for themselves is practicing control and is therefore EVIL.
A
person who seeks to help others create their own successful businesses
and generate abundant profits for themselves and their employees is
practicing empowerment
and is therefore GOOD. But a person who seeks to destroy
entrepreneurship, suppress innovation, punish small businesses and
burden private sector job creation with onerous taxes and regulation is
practicing control and is therefore EVIL.
A person who
seeks to teach others how to protect themselves against violent crime
through the intelligent, ethical use of weapons for self defense is
practicing empowerment and is therefore GOOD. But a person who
seeks to strip away from everyone else their right to self defense,
placing them in the position of defenseless victimization, is practicing
control and is therefore EVIL.
A city mayor who seeks to
teach his constituents the principles of nutrition and food choice so
that they might make better decisions about their diet and health is
practicing empowerment and is therefore GOOD. But a city mayor
who demands blind obedience to his selective agenda of banning large
sodas or other junk food items is practicing control and is therefore EVIL. (Bloomberg, anyone?)"
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