The Right to Fail

William Christensen 8/18/08 (14)

Equal and opposite

Imagine a point. This point equals zero.

0

This is what everything balances on. For this example, the zero equals the amount of light. Now extend a line out to the right of the zero. At the end of this line, there are 10.

0--------------------10

If there were only 10, this line is unbalanced. So you need to add a force that is Equal in length, but opposite in direction

-10--------------------0--------------------10

This balances the line. This works with everything. An Equal and Opposite force for everything. With out evil, there is no good. With out dark, there is no light. With out misery, there is no joy. If you are in a dark room for an extended period of time, normal daylight will seem blinding. If you are in a state of perpetual pain, to be relieved of the pain into a state that most people are in, will be like heaven. If you return into one of these dark rooms, they will seem worse, because you have adjusted to the light.

America is the greatest country on earth.

America is the greatest country on earth, because of our freedoms. Among our freedoms are:

Freedom to use a gun

Freedom to say what you want

Freedom to practice your religion

Freedom to choose your job

Freedom to work hard

Freedom to be self-employed

Freedom to reach for your dreams

Freedom to succeed

But as stated in Newton’s third law of motion; For every force, there is an equal and opposite force. So in order for these to balance, they must each have an opposite.

Freedom to not use a gun

Freedom to not say what you want

Freedom to not practice your religion

Freedom to not choose your job

Freedom to be lazy

Freedom to not be self-employed

Freedom to not reach for your dreams

Freedom to fail

These are all Freedoms, not guarantees. You are not guaranteed to succeed. You are not guaranteed to fail. This is why America is great. Because of out freedoms.

Now it seems like no one looks at the second list. They only look at the top list, and say those are guaranteed. Then the government bails out Fanny Mae, Freddi Mac, and Bear Sterns. They take away our right to fail. This seems good, but we forget Newton’s third law of motion. The government, by taking away our right to fail, has also taken away our right to succeed.