And the diminution of ideologues …after a hail of gunfire doesn’t stop V Creedy: Die! Die! Why won’t you die?… Why won’t you die? V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. —Taken from Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta *** I [...]

…The problem, as Gairdner points out, is that we’re playing a zero-sum game. Liberty and fairness (which he calls ‘equality’, used to mean guaranteeing more equal outcomes) tend to move opposite one another. Said another way, as a state endeavors to increase fairness to one, it diminishes the liberties of another. …