yeah, we're all babies and need the government to play mommy....  or
maybe automobiles should be banned completely, along with any powered
vehicle and even bicycles.  maybe we should be locked inside our houses
and have food sent in by pneumatic tube...

life's a bitch!  freedom isn't free, part of the cost is always paid for
by others, part of the cost is always paid in blood.  frankly, i'd
rather pay in blood for my rights and liberties than have to spill blood
to get them back.  maintaining freedom is a lot cheaper than getting it
back later.  grow up.  the worlds a dangerous place.  you pick your dice
and throw them, adults should have the right to throw whatever set of
dice they prefer until it's grossly irresponsible and hazardous to
others, like drunk driving or building your own nuclear reactor in the
back yard.

please, i'm sick of the government trying to protect us from ourselves.
it's not their job.  the rightful role of government in a society that
claims to be a democracy and wants to move in that direction is to
protect the weak from the strong, the individual from corporations etc.,
not the other way around as it's becoming.  maybe you shouldn't be
allowed to have matches or solvents in your house, after all you could
start a fire that could spread to someone else's house.  yeah, it sucks
when the public has to pay for accident victims care in hospitals, but
it sucks a lot worse for the victim, get some perspective.

taking care of people with aids or hepatitis is expensive as well,
perhaps we should ban sex, we would certainly all be a lot safer.  maybe
cars shouldn't be allowed to go more than 5 mph and should have 2 foot
soft squishy bumpers all around.  everything you do potentially has some
negative impact on others, particularly the idiots that think it's your
fault when they worry or don't agree with your lifestyle.

hey, i'm honestly very, very annoyed by lawnmowers and am very allergic
to lawn clippings, it would be really nice if everyone had to mow the
lawn on the same day, it would have a lot less impact on me, but you
know i just don't think i have the right to force or expect that kind of
compliance.  if people mow randomly and there is usually someone mowing
on any given day it impacts me, if people were banned from having lawns
or had to mow them all the same day with sophisticated clipping/dust
collectors it would impact on them.  we all have to tolerate a little
inconvenience if we want to be free ourselves which inevitably has
negative impact on some.

perhaps electric power generation should be banned.  after all it
creates a lot of pollution which shortens lives of millions, and there
are those occasional railroad or other directly related activities that
kill people occasionally.

it's about balance, it's about having some respect for others.  it's
about realizing that different have different needs and susceptibilities
to harm from others choices, you just have to tolerate the cost
associated with freedom.

besides, the legal system in this country is a crock and getting worse
frankly.  there are good cops, good judges, and perhaps even good
prosecutors, but there are many, many more who are bad including some
who are truly out of control.  there are 3 major gangs in the U.S., the
crips, the bloods, and the badges, frankly the badges do the most
damage.  at the same time i'd like to see a lot more police on the
force, but they need to be better trained, more responsible for their
actions, and they need to worry about real problems.  things like
domestic violence that is still often ignored that does real damage to
individuals and society and leads to much death directly and indirectly.
 we don't need more laws, we need some of the current laws to be
properly and aggressively enforced, and uniformly enforced independent
of who the victim and perpetrator are.

weighed against societies problems that law enforcement could actually
have a positive impact on things like speeding hardly warrant automated
and unsupervised systems.  we must not put "justice" in the hands of
machines and corporate america, unless we want massive corruption.
corporations try to rip people off all the time, they occasional
deliberately mis bill people's credit cards because many people won't
notice and they can steal some extra $$.  our satellite service has done
this, tried to charge us for pay per view movies that were never ordered
(the system isn't even connected to the phone line and we don't waste
money that way).  sure, if you complain they take off the fraudulent
charges, but a lot of people don't notice or don't fight it and get
ripped off.  frankly i think this kind of credit card fraud is rather
wide spread at a low level.  at the very least it temporarily helps
their cash flow and solvency, it can be a free signature loan until
contested and credited.

you really don't want to go down the road of taking away freedoms and
regulating everything to death just to save some health care or other
cost.  there's a balance ideally, and we are headed away from freedom
rather than towards it sadly.  honor those who fought for your freedom
by not giving those freedoms away or asking that they be taken from
others.  fascism usually starts slow, and then all of a sudden the
police are randomly searching any house or person they want and holding
people in secret locations without even allowing them access to a
lawyer, i.e. what our wonderful government is doing right now.  i
believe in the constitution, bill of rights, and the declaration of
independence.  i'd like to see more law makers caring about this
countries origins and a more enlightened public.  more enlightened about
the many historical and ongoing abuses of power that have and are
happening here, now.  go ahead, stick your head in the sand, just don't
be surprised when someone comes up behind you and pulls your pants down...

and i'd like to see more enforcement of many of the driving laws, but it
has to be done by people, those people have to be responsible and
accountable.  there has to be proof and a witness, not some automated
system that's easily corrupted or abused (just think about it, if a
company becomes responsible for issuing and collecting on all speeding
tickets the owners can speed at will, and others can be fined even when
not guilty, just to make a profit).

by legal definition corporations are fictitious persons, which is how
those who make decisions avoid liability for their acts.  a fictitious
person, a corporation has no soul and there for can not help but be evil
in the majority of cases.  lets not privatize government, lets actually
have government agencies doing their jobs rather than making others rich
and avoiding responsibility for the outcome.

Jake Anderson wrote:
>
> till you have a traffic accident
> become brain damaged and a burden on society and those around you.
> Or you get catapulted out of the car and die ruining the life of the other
> person in the accident.
> there are any number of reasons why seatbelts affect people other than those
> wearing them.
> my philosophy, you can do whatever you want so long as it dosent negativly
> impact sombody else.
> being a burden on society negativly impacts me though, keep that in mind
>
> the government seems to need to legislate in cases where common sense proves
> yet again to be not as common as we would hope.
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