I hit the substance right on the head.IOW, it's none of your business, but you're going to make it so, at gunpoint if necessary.Because you have this almost pathological insistance that everybody should be left alone to do what they want no matter what. To which I say 'phooey'. Couple of things - humans are, in the main, sociable creatures. Some aren't (you would prolly fit the category), but most of us realise in order to get on in this world, there needs to be cooperation. Cooperation leads to towns having councils, countys having some form of govt, ditto states and countries. Us normal folk realised a long time ago, that for a civilised society to work you need to be a land of laws.
You seem to think that any law that infringes on an individuals 'freedom' (whatever that is, and how you definite it would be interesting) is bad. Well, some aren't. Some are. If people could be trusted to do the right thing all the time, we wouldn't need laws. They can't, so we do. Suck it up. And if you don't like it, go live on an island - you will be answerable to no one and you can do whatever the fuck you like.
Second thing - when people get together and decide on an idea, that might even include sharing something (OMG!!!!), it's not necessarily socialism or communism. Maybe it's just communities getting along...
Nothing like good, honest, paternalistic know-it-all tribalism on full display...Bravo.
Not all all. You have missed the substance of the post (either it has passed you by, have diliberately ignored it, or you are cynically pushing it under the carpet). I am not putting a gun to anybody's head. I just realise that all decent societies need the rule of law. Now, what those laws are, and how they should be enacted - that's the crux. You seem to think that anything that doesn't encroach on anybody else should not be a law. I say BS. There are plenty of examples where that is patently untrue.
Laws, by definition, are the initiation of force....Guess what happens if you ignore the laws long enough?...Eventually, someone with a gun strapped to him, with authorization to use it, is going to come looking for you.
Yours is a paternalistic, tribalistic, knuckle-dragging "social" (for lack of a better term) philosophy that rules at the point of a gun, plain and simple.
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