Big Fitz
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I like Michael Savage's response on that.Ok, I'll bite on the level of freedom. Not that I brought it up in this post.
Yes, the more laws enacted, the less freedom I have to murder, rape, sell this or that narcotic, prostitute myself, drink beer on Sunday, dance, end my life with the aid of a physician, have sex with children, look at porn on public buses, operate pyramid schemes, them type of things.
Some are bad bad bad, some good, some none of your business if I do it in my own home with other consenting adults.
I think of Mexico when I think of lawless small government. Is there another place I should be thinking of? Perhaps a superpower I'm forgetting about? MAYBE Australia? New Zealand?
At the very least I believe in laws and a good number of punishments because folks can't be trusted.
You are correct. People can't be trusted to self-regulate themselves in a free society which is why some government is needed to make it work but since government enacts laws that removes us from our state of freedom then government is the thing that acts against freedom but since we can't be trusted we still need it at the same time. It kind of sucks but until God makes us perfect people that can function without any external control we will always need government.
The question is shouldn't government take the form that comes as close as possible to maintain the free society?
Is this going to turn into a post about legalized pot? If so I would so happily tie pot legalization to the same bill which made any vehicle accident while high on pot or alcohol an attempted murder charge. My view being do whatever as long as you don't go driving stoned and risk MY life or that of folks I like.
Make Marinol an over the counter pill.
Done and done.
Higher concentrations of THC in a convenient pill so you don't accidentally dose others around you and stink up the joint.
Then again, I've never met a pot legalizer who didn't want to (or doesn't currently) smoke it themselves and get stoned.