5. Janet Tyler - The Twilight Zone (In The Eye Of The Beholder)
The State isnt God! [...] It has no right to make ugliness a crime! Todays more savvy audience will see the twist coming a mile away, but The Eye of the Beholder is as relevant as ever as an allegory for conformity. Janet Tyler is born disfigured, into a world that refuses to tolerate her harmless difference in appearance. Her only choices are to have facial reconstruction surgery, or to be banished from society. In the storys most overt allusion to Orwell, the propaganda of this imagined worlds leader is televised across ever-present screens, blearing ...there must be a single purpose! A single norm! A single entity of peoples! A single virtue! A single morality!. While on the surface, this episode can be enjoyed for what is says about the subjectivity of physical beauty, peer deeper, and you will see a story that is about tolerating all the differences in your fellow man, physical and otherwise. While many governments seek to create homogeneity or cohesion, libertarianism accepts that people will always be fundamentally different from each other, and that thats alright. Other peoples freedoms are to be defended, even when they exercise that freedom in ways that are unpopular, or subjectively ugly.