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There’s nothing radical about recognizing that all humans are rational and self-serving. It isn’t radical to realize that this inevitably means government agents will seek to grow the control of government. There’s nothing radical about the conclusion that limiting the power of government is the only way to ensure a populace can remain free.
It’s not radical to notice that macroeconomic patterns arise from the interrelationship of simple individual actors. It’s not radical to point out that all consensual trade generates value for both parties (if one person didn’t like the deal, they wouldn’t make it). It’s not radical to state that when a trade is enforced at gun point, one person may be negatively impacted.
It’s not radical to believe all humans deserve a chance at life, or that diversity is what makes evolution so powerful (if a disease came to Earth that killed all people over 6 feet tall, you’d be glad you didn’t euthanize midgets). But it’s also not radical to point out that with diversity of genetics, environment, and knowledge comes a diversity of morals and ideals. It’s not radical to think that people with wildly different morals living in close proximity will create tension, civil unrest, and eventually war. It’s therefore not radical to support keeping humans diverse yet segregated.
There’s nothing radical about building walls around your bed to protect it at night, nor building walls around your property to keep out unwanted thieves or loiterers. So there’s nothing radical about wanting walls around your country.
