Good on the photographer.

After all, these vandals aren't getting fined and 15 minutes of unwanted fame on the web because their behavior is run of the mill.

It's not.

Whenever I go to a fast food restaurant or some such place, I hear people advocating for the notion that freedom means being able to anything we want, with no concern for anybody else. It leaves me wondering, "What? Are the schools requiring Ayn Rand now?"

around the country myself. I was trying to figure out the libertarian notions that currently infest business and much of the right wing and found that true libertarians are very likely a personality type all their own. A small one, mercifully.

Turns out:

Liberals and cons are similar in altruism (will sacrifice for the benefit of others), just the size of the groups they feel responsible for varying -- cons mostly their own tribe, liberals theirs and others.

Libertarians are pretty much lacking in altruism. Their ideology makes being only for oneself a virtue and sign of a truly responsible person.

Liberals and conservatives are similar in believing in a range of moral principles, many of which vie for top importance.

Libertarians put personal liberty on its own pedestal, with any other morals they ascribe to very much lower in importance. Making a virtue of "being able to do anything we want, with no concern for anything else." And, of course, they are the responsible, worthy ones by so doing.

You know, if you'd accused Americans of being infected with hypocrisy, I'd have real trouble arguing against that.

using the word "probity" again. It's sadly out of fashion. Today's substitute is "integrity," adhering to one's beliefs. Hitler was apparently the very soul of integrity.

Probity: The quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency.

And fined.

This is my neighborhood.