Free Trade OR Gulch T-Shirt

What guides one's understanding of reality? Critical reasoning to identify objective reality? Or haphazard emotionalism, never venturing beyond the subjective? The Age of Enlightenment, as the defining period of human history when critical reasoning displaced emotionalism, began the ideas that led to the creation of the United States of America. These ideas identify that reality is objective, unalterable by one's feelings or arbitrary beliefs. Moreover, they represent the recognition that one's life belongs to oneself, not to any government, ideology or collective. The values of "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" enshrined in the Declaration of Independence are direct products of the rational primacy of the Enlightenment. In writing "Atlas Shrugged," Ayn Rand gave the world a clear understanding of the consequences of abandoning Enlightenment values. Why should capable, productive traders, who violate no one's rights as individuals, accept limitations by governments in their trade with others? Because the need of their neighbours somehow justifies it? Galt's Gulch represents the answer. They didn't accept. Will you demand your freedom as an individual to obtain the most beneficial trade terms you can or accept the immoral notion that you must only trade with those who happen to live in the same country, region, state or even town as you?